Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 1:11

11 In whom we also have obtained an inheritance , being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the councel of his own will .

We Apostles and others Elect of the Iewish Nation, we who first trusted in Christ, v. 12.

Are called, or brought into the participation of an Inheritance, or have a Right given us to it as by lot. In allusion to the twelve Tribes, having in the Division of the Land of Canaan their Inheritances assigned them by lot. He shews that they did not first seek it, much less deserve it, but God cast it upon them: their lot fell in the Heavenly Inheritance when others did not.

This, aswell as the forementioned privileges, was designed to us by eternal Predestination, and though it be free, and without our procuring, yet in respect of God, it is not casual, but of his ordering.

Powerfully and effectually;

i. e. That infinite wisedom of God which is always in conjunction with his will, whereby he acts wisely aswell as freely, and though not by deliberation which falls beneath his infinite perfection, yet with his greatest reason and judgment.