Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 1:17

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisedom , and revelation in the knowledge of him .

He is the God of Christ not according to Christ's Divine Nature, but his Humane, and as Mediatour, in which respect he was subject to the Father.

The most glorious Father, and the Authour of all Glory, and glorious things, and to whom all glory is due.

A greater measure (for some they already had) of Faith (as v. 9. where it is called Wisedom) or of the knowledge of the things of God, whereof the Spirit is the Authour, God is said to give or send the Spirit, where the Spirit works effectually, and so to give the Spirit of Wisedom, where the Spirit effectually works that Wisedom.

By Revelation he means not extraordinary, such as the Prophets had, but ordinary, such as was common to Believers, and expresseth the manner of the Spirit's working this wisedom, that he doth it by removing the covering or veil of natural Ignorance, (Psal. 119.18. Luk. 24.45.) shining into the mind, and making it see what before it saw not; sometimes new objects, sometimes new excellencies in objects before known. Thus the Spirit works not onely in the beginning of Faith and spiritual Knowledge, but in its farther progress he lets in new Light into the mind, and removes some remaining degree of natural Darkness.

Or Acknowledgement, which may imply an owning, approving, and embracing things before known.

i. e. God or Christ, or God in Christ: and so either he declares here wherein the Wisedom he mentioned consists, viz. the Knowledge of God and Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of Wisedom and Knowledge: or rather the end of that Wisedom and Revelation, viz. the acknowledgement of God or Christ, when we so know him, as to own him as ours, to embrace, and love, and wholly subject our selves to him, Col. 1.9, 10.

Marginal references: Joh. 20.17.; Or, for the acknowledgement.