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Ephesians 3:17
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15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 that He would grant you, aaccording to the riches of His glory, bto be strengthened with might through His Spirit in cthe inner man,  
17 athat Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, bbeing rooted and grounded in love,  
18 amay be able to comprehend with all the saints bwhat is the width and length and depth and height—  
19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled awith all the fullness of God.  
20 Now ato Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly babove all that we ask or think, caccording to the power that works in us,  
21 ato Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. 
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ephesians 3:17

That—So that.

dwell—abidingly make His abode (John 14:23). Where the Spirit is there Christ is (John 14:16, John 14:18).

by faith—Greek, "through faith," which opens the door of the heart to Jesus (John 3:20). It is not enough that He be on the tongue, or flit through the brain: the heart is His proper seat [CALVIN]. "You being rooted and grounded in love" (compare Ephesians 3:19), is in the Greek connected with this clause, not with the clause, "that ye may be able to comprehend." "Rooted" is an image from a tree; "grounded" (Greek, "founder," "having your foundations resting on"), from a building (compare Notes,, see on Ephesians 2:20-21; Colossians 1:23; Colossians 2:7). Contrast Matthew 13:6, Matthew 13:21. "Love," the first-fruit of the Spirit, flowing from Christ's love realized in the soul, was to be the basis on which should rest their further comprehension of all the vastness of Christ's love.




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