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Eph 1:10. Εἰς, in) Construe with γνωρίσας, having made known.-οἰκονομίαν τοῦ πληρώματος τῶν καιρῶν, the dispensation of the fulness of the times) Fulness τῶν καιρῶν, of the times,[10] is in some degree distinguished from the fulness ΤΟῦ ΧΡΌΝΟΥ, of the time, Gal 4:4, for it involves the fulness of the benefits themselves, and of men reaping these benefits, Mar 1:15. Still each fulness is in Christ, and there is a certain peculiar economy and dispensation of this fulness, Col 1:25. Paul very often uses the words πληρόω and ΠΛΉΡΩΜΑ in writing to the Ephesians and Colossians.-ἈΝΑΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΏΣΑΣΘΑΙ) that all might be brought under one head. All things had been under Christ; but they had been torn and rent from Him by sin: again they have been brought under His sway. Christ is the head of angels and of men: the former agree with Him in His invisible, the latter in His visible nature.-τὰ πάντα, all things [the whole range of things]) not only Jews and Gentiles, but also those things which are in heaven and upon the earth:-angels and men, and the latter including those who are alive as well as those long ago dead, Eph 3:15.-τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, in the heavens) in the plural.
[10] Seasons rather.-ED.