19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.



Ver. 19. With, all the fulness of God] That is, of Christ’s diffusive fulness, in whom the Godhead dwelt bodily, and in whom we are complete, Col_2:9-10.



And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge] Chrysostom speaking of this love of God in Christ, Oh, saith he, I am like a man digging in a deep spring; I stand here, and the water riseth upon me; I stand there, and still the water riseth upon me. But though we cannot ever know it all, yet we may and must grow in the knowledge of this love of Christ, in the searching of this sea that hath neither bank nor bottom; and where, as in the salt waters, "the deeper the sweeter."