7 For your Faith and Love, and all the ſpiritual Bleſſings God hath beſtowed : upon you. 0 IT not only acknowledge what ye have received, but pray that what is yet lacking in you may be made up.
17 That * the God of onr Lord Jeſus Chriit p, the Father of glory 4 ry give vnto you the ſpirit of ſr wiſdom 7, and revelation / + in the knojvledge 7 of
_ tim x. | '*. pHeijs the God of Chrift not according to Chriſt's Divine Nature, but Bis Humane, and as Mediatour, in which reſpea he was fub- j-& to the Father. q. The moſt glorious Father, and the Author of all Glory, and glorious things, and to whom all glory is due. 7 A greater meaſure (for ſome they already had) of Faith (as verſe 9g, Where it is Cailed Wiſdom) or of the knowledge of the things of God, whereof the Spirit is the Author z God is ſaid to 2iveor ſend the Spirit, where the Spirit works effequally, and ſo to give the Spirit of Wiſdom, where the Spirit effe&ually works thar Wiſdom. { By Revelation he means not extraordinary, ſuch as the Prophets had, but ordinary, ſuch as was common to Belie- vers, and expreſſeth the manner of the Spirit's working this Wiſdom, that he doth it by removing the covering or veil of natural Tgno- rance, (Pſal. 119. 18. Luke 24. 45+) ſhining into the mind, and making it ſee what before it ſaw not ; ſometimes new objetts, ſome- times new excellencies in objetts before known. Thus the Spirit works not only in the beginning; of Faith and ſpiritual Knowledge 3 but in its farther progreſs, he lets in new Light into the mind, and removes ſome remaining degree of natural Darkneſs. # Or Ac- knowledgment,which may imply an owning,approving,and embracing things before known. u 7. e. God or Chrift, or God in Chrift ; ant 10 either he declares here wherein the Wiſdom he mentioned conſiſts, viz. the Knowledge of God and Chrift, in whom are hid all the Treaſures of Wiſdom and Knowledge ; or rather the end of that Wiſdom and Revelation, viz. the acknowledgment of God or Chriſt, when we ſo know him, as to own him as ours, to em- pes » and love, and wholly ſubject our ſelves to him , 01, 1. 9, 10s
18 The eyes of your underſtanding being enlight- ncdy, that ye may know what is the hope of his cal- 132 y, and what the riches of the glory = of his a 1n- teritance b in the Salnts c.
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plains the" former. What the Fye 13. to the Pody, that the Un- derftanding is to the Soul. He pravs for a farther devreo of itthu- manation tor them. y Either 1, thzobj{&t of Hope, the thing kho- ped for, as Col. 1.5. Gal. 5.5. and thn the meaning is; What it 5 to the Hope of which God hath called vo by the Goſp=l. Or 2, the Grace vi Hope, g. 9. that ye may know how orcat, and ivr, and well grounded that hope is, which by the Goſpel i5 wrou1 ht in you. # The glorious riches, or the abundant glory ; k:cxes of Glory and Riches of Grace, wer, 7. and Riches of Glort, Rem. 23. 4 becauſe he 1s the Father of it ; he gives this Glory as tho Father of Glory. As Men &give Inheritances ſuitable to their Eſtates, ſo God as the God of Glory, and Farh-r of Glory, gives 8. Glorious Inheritance. 6b Hearen, called an Inheritance both in reſpett of Believers Title to it by Virtne of their Adoption being Heirs of God, and in reſpett of the perpe=ruity of their enjoying, it, on which account it is called an Fternal Tnheritance, 27-br. 9. 15- c or amorg the Saints, thol? namely that are perfett, who alone are polieſſed of the Inheritance, which Saints on Larch have only in hope. | 19 And what z the exceeding EreatneG of his po- wer to us-ward who believed 4 * according to the * Col. 5. working | of his mighty power e. | EEE 4 He means that Tower of God which is put forth in the whole Þ, Or o of our Salvation, from firſt to laſt : not that abſolute power where- © Pr by he can do whatſoever is poſſible to be done, but his ordinate J ws: power, or power joined with his Will, whereby not only he will © Work in raifing us up at laſt, and finally ſaving us, but hath wrought in begetting Faith in us, and doth Work in frill preſers- ing that Faith (1 Fer. 1. 5.) and carrying us on in the way of Salvation. And this he ſpeaks for the encouragement of the Ephe- ſians, that they ſhould not tear falling ſhort of the Riches of the Glory of the Inheritance mentioned, ſeeing God who hath by his power brought them to Chrilt, is able likewiſe by the ſame power to bring them to Glory. e come point the words after »:-ward, and read them , 1/þo belizve according 10 the working of hs mighty power, &c. and then the meaning mutt be, that the working Faith in Believers, is an inftance of his mighty power : He hath ſh2wn his power in working Faith, 2nd theretore will ſhew it in the remain- der of Salvation which is to foilow. But our Tranſlation favours the former ſenſe, and then as in the pitceding Clauſe he ſhews the great- neſs of God's Power , fo in this latter the Efficacy of it in its —_ Operation, particularly the raiſing up Chrift from the Dead.
20 Which he wrought in Chrift when he raiſed him from the dead f, and * ſer him at his own right hand *Pſ. 1103 h 1a the heavenly places, 5. ” f i.e. The Power God exerciſeth towards Believers is ſuch as that was whereby he raiſed up Chrift from the Dead. h Hath inveſted him with the greateft Honour, Dignity, and Power, as Princes ſet the next in Honour, and Arthority to them- ſelves at their Right Hands : See arthew 20. 21. 7 Jn the higheſt Heaven, called the Third Heaven, 2 Cor. 12; 2. and Paradiſe, verſe 4.
21 * Far above all principality and power, and #phi1.2.9. nighr, and dominion &, and every name that is na- Col.2. 1:
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