1:9
The “with all wisdom and understanding” could go with the “lavishing” of with “making known the mystery”. It actually matters little as both actions were done with all wisdom and understanding, and are all part of a piece. God chose to send His Son at just the right time, thus making the mystery known at just the right time. The mystery is how on earth God’s plans as expressed through the prophets could possibly work out. And Christ is the centre of all that God does.
1:10
God’s plan is to bring unity to all things. Some of the language used in this chapter (e.g. talking about mystery, bringing things to fulfilment etc) may have been deliberately chosen to counter gnostic type teachings (Gnosticism itself was not fully formed at this stage, but the basic ideas were floating around). The times will reach their fulfilment when Christ returns. Everything will be brought together under Christ. This is very fitting. One of the oft repeated phrases in the Old Testament is “I will be their God, and they will be my people”. There is meant to be a unity between man and God, with God at the head (obviously).
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