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Eph 3:4. Πρὸς ὁ, whereby) This expression is not exclusively to be referred to in a few words, but to the whole thought; and πρὸς marks the analogy, according to [“from which ye may understand”]: as in the common saying, the size of the lion may be inferred from the size of his claw.[41] From what I have written above, you may, etc.-δύνασθε, you may) The word is modestly and ingenuously used.-ἀναγινώσκουτες, when you read) This book is very sublime, and yet it is put into the hands of all to be read.-νοῆσαι τὴν σύνεσίν μου, understand my knowledge [perceive my understanding in]) and therefore profit by me. Paul wrote with greater plainness and sublimity in this epistle, than he had formerly done in any other.
[41] Joh. Michaelis quotes a similar phrase from Thucydides: πρὸς τὰς ἐπιστολὰς ὑπόπτευον, they suspected him by reason of his letters.-E. B.