Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 1:19

19 For it pleased the Father , that in him should all fulness dwell .

'Tis true the word Father is not in the Greek text, nor in the oriental versions, but is well understood and supply'd from the context, v. 12. where the Apostle gives thanks to the Father, and then describes his dear Son in the following verses, and here in this addes a cogent reason why he should be the head of his Church, sith the Son of his love, (in whom he is well pleas'd, Mat. 3.17.) is he alone in whom he likes to dwell with all fulness, or all fulness doth will to abide.

Here is another all and a fulness added to that all: an all for parts, a fulness for degrees: a transcendency in all, above all. 'Tis of the Father's good-pleasure that Christ, not here considered simply, as the Son of God; but respectively, as head of his Church, and mediatour, should be the subject of this all fulness which is not directly that of his body mystical, Eph. 1.23. But (1.) originally the fulness of the Godhead whereby he hath an all-sufficiency of perfections for his mediatory office upon the mystical union which none other hath or can have, c. 2.9. Ioh. 1.14. (o[illegible: 1 letter] which more distinctly in the next Chapter) (2.) Derivatively a fulness of the Spirit and habitual grace, Luk. 1.80. with Ioh. 1.16, 33. & 3.34, holiness, wisedom, power perfectly to finish his work, Ioh. 17.4▪ & 19.30. and other excellencies for the reconciling (as it follows) and actual influencing of his body, Psal. 130.7, 8. Mat. 28.18. Ioh. 5.20. Rom. 1.4. 1 Cor. 5.4. with 2 Cor. 12.9. Eph. 1.20, 21. Heb. 7.25, 26. Rev. 5.6, 12.

And this all fulness doth not onely Lodge in him for a time, but resideth and abides in him; 'tis not in him as the divine Glory was a while in the Tabernacle of Moses, and the Temple of Solomon, but dwells constantly in him no[illegible: 1 letter] as a private Person but a universal principle: as head of the body (as well as reconciler) to fill up the emptiness of Man with the abundant grace that perpetually resideth in him.

A Learned Man reads it, For all fulness pleased to dwell in him. Others, he liked or approved that all fulness should dwell in him, bringing instances for that construction of the word it pleased.