Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Every family (pasa patria). Old word (patra is the usual form) from pathr, descent from a common ancestor as a tribe or race. Some take it here as = patrothv, fatherhood, but that is most unlikely. Paul seems to mean that all the various classes of men on earth and of angels in heaven get the name of family from God the Father of all.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 3:15:
Ephesians 3:1
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