Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 1:12

12 Giving thanks unto the Father , which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light .

He passeth from petitioning, v. 9. to Thanksgiving to God the Father, upon the consideration of his grace manifested in his Son for our Redemption, in the Ephesians, 1.3, 4. he began with Election, here with effectual vocation he acknowledgeth God the Father to be the object and authour of what was wrought for us by his Son, and in us by his Spirit.

Who hath made us capable of Communion with himself, or ready and fit, which implies that by nature we are unready, and unfit; so that merit cannot be drawn hence, and the Rhemists have done ill, contrary to the Translation of the Syriac, to translate it, made us worthy: one Copy hath, who hath called us. The original word in that we follow seems to be an idiom of the Apostle (as the learned think) borrowed from the Hebrew, we find it used onely in one other Text by the Apostle, 2 Cor. 3, 5, 6. and there he shews we are insufficient for, and incapable of saying good things till God do capacitate us by making us accepted in the beloved, Eph. 1.6. we cannot understand things of the Spirit of God, nor affect God, Ioh. 12.39. Rom. 8.5. 1 Cor. 2.14. till God do draw and capacitate us, Ioh. 6.44, 45. Phil. 2.13. and form and work us by his Spirit unto this self same thing, Rom. 4.17. 2 Cor. 5.5.

To have a part in the lot of the purchased Inheritance with them that are Sanctified, Act. 26.18. Eph. 1.14. The Apostle seems to allude to the Land Canaan, wherein a portion was assigned to every one by lot for his inheritance, that being a type of the rest which remaineth to the People of God, Heb. 4.9. and this is here said to be of the Saints in light, as allegorically connoting the joy and glory of that state and place, in opposition to the power of darkness.