Ephesians 3:2
If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiæ Dei, quæ data est mihi in vobis :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- εἴ γε ἠκούσατε τὴν οἰκονομίαν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς δοθείσης μοι εἰς ὑμᾶς·
Haydock's commentary
If yet 1 you have heard. If yet doth not imply a doubt, but is the same as, for you have heard the dispensation.2 This word, dispensation, is divers times taken by St. Paul to signify the manner by which a thing is done, or put in execution; the sense therefore here is, for you have heard how by the grace of God I have been made your apostle. (Witham)
1 Si tamen audistis, eige, &c. Si tamen and eige do not here express a doubt, but an affirmation, the same as in Latin, si quidem. See St. Chrysostom on the next chapter, ver. 21. log. ig. p. 829. eige ouk amphiballantos esti, alla kai sphodra diabebaioumenou.
2 Dispensationem, oikonomian, rei gestæ administrationem.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 2:17-22
Ver. 2 . “If so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God, which was given me to you-ward.”