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(Greek: [[oikonomia]], "management," "economy")
'''1.''' The method or scheme according to which [[Text:EBD:God]] carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the [[Patriarch|Patriarchal]], the [[Mosaic]] or [[Jewish]], and the [[Christian]]. (See [[Covenant (EBD)|Covenant]]). These were so many stages in God's unfolding of his purpose of [[grace]] toward men. The word is not found with this meaning in [[Scripture]].
'''2.''' A commission to preach the [[gospel]] ([[1 Corinthians 9:17]]; [[Ephesians 1:10]]; [[Ephesians 3:2]]; [[Colossians 1:25]]).
