Charles Hodge on Ephesians 1:15-23

15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16. cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18. the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19. and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20. which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21. far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22.and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to his church: 23. which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Having in the preceding Section unfolded the nature of those blessings of which the Ephesians had become partakers, the apostle gives thanks to God for their conversion, and assures them of their interest in his prayers, vs. 15. 16. He prays that God would give them that wisdom and knowledge of himself of which the Spirit is the author, v. 17; that their eyes might be enlightened properly to apprehend the nature and value of that hope which is founded in the call of God; and the glory of the inheritance to be enjoyed among the saints, v. 18; and the greatness of that power which had been already exercised in their conversion, v. 19. The power which effected their spiritual resurrection, was the same as that which raised Christ from the dead, and exalted him above all created beings and associated him in the glory and dominion of God, vs. 20. 21. To him all things are made subject, and he is constituted the supreme head of the church, which is his body, the fulness or complement of the mystical person of him who fills the universe with his presence and power, vs. 22. 23.