Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 3:17
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Ephesians3:17
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye being rooted and grounded in love .
On whom this Spirit (who must strengthen you as being a Spirit of Might, Isa. 11.2.) resteth, Isa. 61.1.
May intimately, and continually possess and fill not your heads onely with his Doctrine, but your affections with his Spirit, see Ioh. 14.23.
Whereby ye not onely Believe Christ's Truth, but receive and apprehend himself, and which is the means by which ye have union and communion with him.
Either he means 1. our Love to God and our Neighbour, and then he prays that their Love might not be slight and superficial, but strong and firm. Or 2. God's Love to us, and then he prays that the Ephesians who had already tasted God's Love to them in Christ might be more fully strengthned in the perswasion of that Love.
Marginal references: Col. 2.7.
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