Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 1:18

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightned , that ye may know what is the hope of his calling , and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints .

Viz. By that Spirit of Revelation: and so this clause explains the former. What the Eye is to the Body, that the Understanding is to the Soul. He prays for a farther degree of Illumination for them.

Either 1. the object of Hope, the thing hoped for, as Col. 1.5. Gal. 5.5. and then the meaning is, What it is to the Hope of which God hath called you by the Gospel. Or 2. the Grace of Hope, q. d. that ye may know how great, and sure, and well grounded that hope is, which by the Gospel is wrought in you.

The glorious riches, or the abundant glory; Riches of Glory, and Riches of Grace, v. 7. and Riches of Glory, Rom. 9.23.

because he is the Father of it: he gives this Glory as the Father of Glory. As Men give Inheritances suitable to their Estates, so God as the God of Glory, and Father of Glory, gives a Glorious Inheritance.

Heaven, called an Inheritance both in respect of Believers Title to it by virtue of their Adoption being Heirs of God, and in respect of the perpetuity of their enjoying it, on which account it is called an Eternal Inheritance, Heb. 9.15.

or among the Saints, those namely that are perfect, who alone are possessed of the Inheritance, which Saints on earth have onely in hope.