Look at Jesus where He was--the poor, tortured, wounded body, slain by our sins, lying cold and still in Joseph's grave: then lift up your eyes and see Him _where He is_,--enthroned in the worship and wonder of heaven! Measure by that distance, by the sweep and lift of that almighty Arm, the strength of the forces engaged to your salvation, the might of the powers at work through the ages for the redemption of humanity.
[61] See Westcott and Hort's _New Testament in Greek_, vol. ii., pp. 124, 125.
[62] Dr. Beet abides by the critical text. He solves the difficulty by giving =pistis= a double sense: "the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and the _faithfulness_ towards all the saints." See his Commentary on _Ephesians, etc._, pp. 284-6.
[63] In 1 Thess. i. 7-9; 2 Thess. i. 4, the same thought enters into Paul's thanksgiving; comp. 2 Cor. ix. 2.
[64] This is the emphatic =epignôsis=, so frequent in the later epistles. See Lightfoot's _note_ on Col. i. 9; or Cremer's _Lexicon to N.T. Greek_.
[65] See ch. iii. 3-5, iv. 11; and comp. 1 Cor. xiv. 26-40, etc.
[66] Adolphe Monod: _Explication de l'épître de S. Paul aux Éphésiens_. A deeply spiritual and suggestive Commentary.
[67] In this amplitude of expression there is no idle heaping up of words. The four synonyms for _power_ have each a distinct force in the sentence. =Dynamis= is _power_ in general, as that which is able to effect some purpose; =energeia= is _energy_, power in effective action and operation; =kratos= is _might_, _mastery_, sovereign power,--in the New Testament used chiefly of the power of God; =ischys= is _force_, _strength_, power resident in some person and belonging to him. This is the order in which the words follow each other. Compare vi. 10 in the Greek.