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Eph 3:21. Ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, in the Church) Eph 3:10.-εἰς πάσας, into all) Eph 3:11, ch. Eph 2:7 : comp. again Psalms 117. Into all generations, which ὁ αἰὼν, the age, comprehends, and which terminates in the everlasting ages, τοὺς αἰῶνας.-τὰς γενεὰς, generations) A generation is properly a period of human life, whilst we proceed from parents to children; αἰῶνες 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 γενεὰ, generation, are joined together, so that a very long time may be implied. For there are in αἰῶνες no longer generations.[55]
[55] Therefore γενεὰ must be taken metaphorically.-ED.