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Eph 3:19. Γνῶναί τε τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς γιώσεως, κ.τ.λ., and to know what passes knowledge, etc.) This clause also depends on that you may be able. This is a very charming correction of himself, so to speak;[52] he had said, to know: he immediately denies that our knowledge can be considered adequate; we know only this, that love is more abundantly rich than our knowledge. The love of Christ to us always exceeds our knowledge; and so in Eph 3:20 the power of God exceeds our knowledge.-ἵνα, that) without a conjunction; comp. ἵνα, that, Eph 3:18. Spiritual knowledge and fulness are joined together.-εἰς, unto[53]) This is the goal.
[52] See App. When we take away what has been said, and put in something better or more important: ‘correctio.’
[53] Not with, as Engl. V.; but. “that ye may be filled even as far as unto all the fulness of God.”-ED.