Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 1:21

21 Far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion , and every name that is named not onely in this World, but also in that which is to come .

These terms are sometimes applied to Magistrates, and Men in Authority here in the World, Tit. 3.1. Iude 8. sometimes to Angels, Good Ones, Col. 1.16. to Evil Ones, Chap. 6.12. Col. 2.15. though with allusion to Powers in the World, or because by them God puts forth and ex [illegible: 2 letters]ciseth his Power and Dominion. By these then the Apostle understands good Angels, as ch. 3.10. or comprehensively, all sorts of Powers both visible and invisible, as Col. 1.16. 1 Pet. 3.22.

Lest any might think he had not named all above whom Christ is exalted, he adds this, to take all in. Every name, that is, every Person, and every thing which hath a Name: whatever hath any Dignity or Excellency.

Because though it hath a being at present, yet it is future to us who are not yet possessed of it. Either this Clause relates to Christ's Sitting at his Father's Right Hand, and then it notes the perpetuity of his Reign, that his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, Luk. 1.33. or rather to the words immediately going before: q. d. if there be any Name, any Dignity or Excellency not known in this Life, and which shall be known in the other; yet be they what they may, Christ is above them all.

Marginal references: Phil. 2.5. Col. 2.10.