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Eph_1:16. Οὐ πσύομαι ] a popular form of hyperbole. My thanksgiving—so full and urgent is it—can find no end. Comp. 1Th_1:2; Luk_2:37; Herod, vii. 107: τοῦτον δὲ αἰνέων οὐκ ἐπαύετο .
εὐχαριστῶν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ] to give thanks on your account. On the participle, see Herm. ad Viger. p. 771; Bernhardy, p. 477; and on ὑπέρ (super vobis), comp. Eph_5:20; Rom_1:8, Elz.; 1Ti_2:1.
μνείαν ποιούμενος ἐπὶ τῶν προσευχ . μου ] accompanying definition to εὐχαριστῶν : while I make mention in my prayers. Comp. Rom_1:9; 1Th_1:2; Php_1:3; Phm_1:4. What Paul makes mention of is learned from the context, which furnishes not merely ὑμῶν (Elz.; see the critical remarks), but a more precise definition, namely: of what he has heard concerning the faith and love of the readers, and for which he gives thanks on their account. This μνείαν ποιούμενος κ . τ . λ ., however, is not superfluous, and after εὐχαρ . ὑπὲρ ὑμ . self-evident; but it serves, through the close joining on to it of the following ἵνα κ . τ . λ . (after Eph_1:16 only a comma is to be placed), as a means of leading over from the thanksgiving to the intercession connected with it, and is thereby accounted for.
ἐπί ] of the prevailing relations and circumstances, in or under which anything takes place. See on Rom_1:10.