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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 1:18 - 1:18
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understanding - The oldest manuscripts, versions, and Fathers, read “heart.” Compare the contrary state of unbelieving, the heart being in fault (Eph 4:18; Mat 13:15). Translate, “Having the eyes of your heart enlightened” (Eph 5:14; Mat 4:16). The first effect of the Spirit moving in the new creation, as in the original physical creation (Gen 1:3; 2Co 4:6). So Theophilus to Autolycus (1.3), “the ears of the heart.” Where spiritual light is, there is life (Joh 1:4). The heart is “the core of life” [Harless], and the fountain of the thoughts; whence “the heart” in Scripture includes the mind, as well as the inclination. Its “eye,” or inward vision, both receives and contemplates the light (Mat 6:22, Mat 6:23). The eye is the symbol of intelligence (Eze 1:18).
the hope of his calling - the hope appertaining to His having called you; or, to the calling wherewith He has called you.
and - omitted in the oldest manuscripts and versions.
riches of the glory - (Col 1:27).
his inheritance in the saints - The inheritance which he has in store in the case of the saints. I prefer explaining, “The inheritance which He has in his saints.” (See on Eph 1:11; Deu 32:9).