Revelation of the Mystery

Before moving on to report to the Ephesians how the new objective spiritual situation, which is about believing Jews and Gentiles united on equal footing in the same body through the blood of Christ, has led him to prayer, Paul pauses to reflect on his apostleship. Paul first reminds the Ephesians that he has been imprisoned on their account. Talk of imprisonment trails off as Paul then speaks about his apostleship and the mechanics of his reception of the revelation of the "mystery" which is the new situation of ethnic unity in the body of Christ. The centerpiece of Paul's thought in these verses is that Paul's knowledge of the mystery was aquired by God disclosing revelation to his mind and that we can access the knowledge of that mystyery revealed to Paul by reading Scripture. All this means that Biblical revelation is objective and propositional and that it may be known and understood by reading Scripture using basic rules of interpretation.