the power of God exceeds our knowledge. — /Va, that) without a conjunction ; comp. /Va, that, ver. 18. Spiritual knowledge and fulness are joined together. — sis, unto1) This is the goal.
20. 'Tnip tfdvra) Kavrat, is governed by cro/?5<ra/, whence we? is put adverbially, as presently after vKspsxtftpiffffov, and iiirspXiav, 2 Cor. xi. 5 ; wetp may however be construed with -ravra : comp. ch. i. 22, where Mp navm means, that which is above all : this [His exaltation as Head of the Church] is above all exaltation, that He Himself is the Head of the Church, etc.2 — vKepex<7rspi<fffov, exceedingly abundant) Construe with to do. — uv) The Genitive is governed by the comparative, which is contained in Ktputffov. — r\ voovftsv, or think) Thought takes a wider range than prayers. A gradation. — %ar«, according to) Paul appeals to their and his experience.
21. 9Ev ry\ sxxXriffici, in the Church) ver. 10. — sig vdffas, into all) ver. 11, ch. ii. 7 : comp. again Ps. cxvii. Into all generations, which 6 ai&v, the age, comprehends, and which terminates in the everlasting ages, rove, aiuva$. — rag ytvsac, generations) A generation is properly a period of human life, whilst we proceed from parents to children ; aluveg are periods of the Divine economy, passing on as it were from one scene to another. Here both words, for the sake of amplification, with a metaphor in yevea, generation, are joined together, so that a very long time may be implied. For there are in aiuve$ no longer generations.31
1 Not with, as Engl. V. ; but, " that ye may be filled even as far as unto all the fulness of God."— ED.
2 Beng. would render ch. i. 22, " He hath given Him to be Head over the Church, an elevation which is above every other kind of elevation
7fO,V1Ct). ED.