So we have the three dimensions of a solid here--breadth, length, and depth. Love, then, according to our apostle, is the ground and mother of the perceptive faculty. That ye may be strong (ινα εχισχυσητε — hina exischusēte). Such is the view of Chrysostom, who calls it- τὸ μυστήριον τὸ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν οἰκονομηθέν, and Theodoret, who describes it as- τῆς οἰκονομίας τὸ μέγεθος. ii. or in the sense of mental grasp (Plato, Phaedr., 250 D), in its various NT occurrences in the Middle Voice (Acts 4:13; Acts 10:34; Acts 25:25) has only the latter meaning. p. 801 E Strabo, xvii. In fact, the Apostle Peter in chapter two and chapter four of Acts offered salvation to those who crucified Christ. You find the same thing repeated in Hebrews 10:7, "In the volume of the book it is written of me, I came to do thy will, O God." Together they express the grandeur of the love of Christ” (Caldwell p. 146). might have a larger and more comprehensive view of. The grace of God reaches out to Jews. This is the height of the love of God, and the height to which that love raises the souls that believe in Christ Jesus! The astronomer cannot always see the stars because they are far away, and outside of him; but our star shines in the heaven of our hearts evermore. By a prior invigoration they were disciplined to it, and braced up for it—“that ye may be fully able”-fully matched to the enterprise. Present participles would be logically necessary: “inasmuch as ye are being confirmed in love,” namely, by the fact that Christ takes up His dwelling in you. Written by an Irish scribe, it once formed part of the same volume as Codex Sangallensis ( ) of the Gospels. [Note: See Barclay, p155, for a slightly different interpretation of the meaning of these dimensions.]. We are to be strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of God; and who can strengthen as He strengthens? None have either the disposition or the skill to comprehend the vastness and glory of the spiritual temple, save they who are in it themselves, and who, being individual and separate shrines, can reason from their own enjoyment to the dignity and splendour of the universal edifice. Commission to Preach God’s Plan. (187) To the abnormal nominative of the construction continued in participles there would be in itself nothing to object (see already Photius in Oecumenius, ad loc. Now, have you got your Bibles? Job 11:7-9. κ. τεθεμ. On the other hand, the change of syntax indicates a change of connection, and the use of the irregular nominative makes the transition easy to the form adopted with ἵνα. The point, I struggle at length to come to a decision and to a plan of action. That the apostle has this architectural image still in view is clear from the fact that, “Unless your roots and foundations are in, you will never really be able to understand the far reaching effects of Christ’s love!!! Увещевание о том, что полезно нам знать, и что Господь велит нам обдумывать со всех сторон: сверху и снизу, справа и слева, спереди и сзади. The easy ability to comprehend. It is very fully described in three parts. we all occupy precisely the same relation to the love, the Divine love, which lies in Jesus Christ. God has gifts which He bestows on the solitary students of Divine truth, and gifts which He bestows on His solitary petitioners in the closet or under, the fig tree. There is the depth of his mercy. “All manner of sin.”. (189) Of what, however, are these dimensions predicated? There is no necessity for such a change, even though the clause be joined, as by Knapp and Lachmann, to that which begins with ἵνα; and the passages usually adduced to justify such an alteration are not precisely parallel, as is acutely shown by Piscator. First of all, the purpose of God in its breadth. Ephesians 3:18 “may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth” “We observe that the apostle now passes from our love (in which we are to be rooted and grounded) to Christ"s love (which he prays we may know” (Stott p. 137). “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Coeval then with Deity itself is the love of Deity towards its chosen ones. The design is to comprehend-. (190) Not of the love of God to us (Chrysostom: τὸ μέγεθος τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ θεοῦ, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Erasmus, Vatablus, Grotius, Baumgarten, Flatt); because previously ἐν ἀγάπῃ does not apply to this love. The order of the TR, , is that of [344] [345] [346], Syr., etc. This deep, spiritual letter discusses our position in Christ, the Body of Christ, salvation by grace through faith, our Christian inheritance, unity of the church, prayer, ministry, ethical right living, and instructions to fathers, husbands, wives, children, masters, employees, and employers. According to the text, we have a solid body to deal with, for we are to measure its breadth and length, and depth, and height. The old Greek commentators, as well as Erasmus and Grotius, refer it to our redemption—identical with the mystery of Ephesians 3:9. And, lastly, what is the height of the love of Christ? The latter is preferred by LTrWH, the former getting a place in the margin with Tr and WH. You don't find that in your Bible. But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims. 2. Many authorities read: ‘height and depth; but the early scribes might readily have substituted this reading for the less usual one. What a holy familiarity with Jesus do the words imply when we come to measurements of all kinds! "I know you did it ignorantly," he said, "but you crucified the Lord of glory. Krüger, § 56, 9, 4; Winer, § 63, 2. Paul prays, not that Christ may dwell in their hearts, but that he may dwell in their hearts as confirmed in love. The Apostle Paul explained God’s love in this fashion: Ephesians 3:18NLT "And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is." 2. 3. The Greek word that was translated "know" in this verse is "ginosko." I want to know where I am headed before I begin. is quite in keeping with the Pauline doctrine of the πίστις διʼ ἀγάπης ἐνεργουμένη, Galatians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 13. ), a Græco-Latin MS., at Dresden, edited by Matthæi in 1791. Besides, these architectural terms lead us to the same conclusion, as they are so applicable to a building. Not of the work of redemption (Chrysostom: τὸ μυστήριον τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν οἰκονομηθέν, Theophylact, Oecumenius, Theodoret, Beza, Piscator, Zanchius, Calovius, and others, including Rückert, Meier, Harless, Olshausen, Baumgarten-Crusius, Bleek), because, after a new portion of the discourse is commenced with Ephesians 3:14, the μυστήριον is not again mentioned; hence also not of the mystery of the cross, in connection with which marvellous allegories are drawn by Augustine and Estius from the figure of the cross. 2. Соединяя в этом деле всех святых, апостол указывает на выдающееся благо, которое те могут достичь в настоящей жизни: высшую премудрость, которой желают все чада Божии. . The “length” may suggest the duration of His love. And if we content ourselves with that altogether inadequate and lame conception of Him and of His nature, of course there is no present bond between any man upon earth and Him, and it is absurd to talk about His present love as extending in any way to me. (J. It is that love which flows from faith, and of which both God and the brethren are the objects. Rooted and grounded ( ἐῤῥιζωμένοι καὶ τεθεμελιωμένοι ). on Galatians 2:10. Rooting and grounding are consequences of the strengthening of the Spirit and of Christ's indwelling. He’ has come to lift us to Himself. II. It seems to be a general term that is defined by its context since these are the only three usages of the word in the Bible. 2. But we are not hence to conclude, that there exists such a thing as dimension or size with regard to God, for he is a pure Spirit: but these expressions are merely metaphorical. 9. What is the breadth of the love of Christ — Embracing all mankind. What follows is sufficiently clear in itself, but has hitherto been darkened by a variety of interpretations. And that love which thus towers above us, and gleams the summit and the apex of the universe, like the shining cross on the top of same lofty cathedral spire, does not gleam there above us inaccessible, nor lie before us like some pathless precipice, up which nothing that has not wings can ever hope to rise, but the height of the love of Christ is an hospitable height, which can be scaled by us. My sins are deep, my helpless miseries are deep, but they are shallow as compared with the love that goes down beneath all sin, that is deeper than all sorrow, that is deeper than all necessity, that shrinks from no degradation, that turns away from no squalor, that abhors no wickedness so as to avert its face from it. It is as broad as humanity. His love is boundless. It is left unnamed. By height we are taught the infinite superiority of his nature over ours: (Psalm cxii.) “When Paul spoke of Christians comprehending the riches of God, he did not have in mind that only a few select saints could understand truth. Whenever any of these are used, the details must be proven from other passages, the choice being largely a matter of individual fancy. Baker.). The order of the measurement is the usual order of our own growth in grace. And this broad love, broad as humanity, is not shallow because it is broad. [40] From all this, it is perfectly evident that "Since Paul purposely omitted all definition, leaving the phrase in absolute generality, no answer can be perfectly satisfactory. The grace of God can reach anybody. God"s love in Christ. Sub-final clause again with ινα — hina and the first aorist active subjunctive of εχισχυω — exischuō a late and rare compound (from εχ ισχυω — exκαταλαβεσται — ischuō) to have full strength. 1. Paul doesn"t want them to have to go through this entire struggle, he wants them to EASILY comprehend the entireness of the subject. I want you to mark what it is. It is a clumsy and equivocal exegesis to comprise under the term both Christ's love to us and our love to Him, as is done by Bucer, Anselm, Zanchius, Crocius, Matthies, and Stier. The power tounderstand. What the apostle meant, desiring the Ephesians might comprehend it. 1. The verb is thus used in a general sense, and coupled with τεθεμελιωμένοι may have no specific reference to plantation. Question: "What does it mean to comprehend the ‘breadth and length and height and depth’ in Ephesians 3:18?" As all the stars lie in the firmament, so all creatures rest in the heaven of His love. “God's love,” as is noted in the paraphrase of Erasmus, “reaches in its height to the angels, and in its depth into hell, and stretches in its length and breadth to all the climates of the world.” Or, as Grotius explains it—“The Divine goodness in its breadth affects all men, and in its length endures through all ages; in its depth it reaches to man's lowest depression, and in its height it carries him to highest glory.” But this explanation, too, the context abjures, unless such were the sense of the previous ἀγάπη, which, however, means love possessed by us. Ephesians 3:18. Compare App-172. White.). ), perhaps a tree (Matthew 7:17), and at the same time as a building. Is that long enough for you? Any Christian may pray for the presence of God, and what is his indwelling but the manifestation of his presence? If the love of God is measureless, how can you measure the love of an omnipotent God? Not of the “divine gracious nature” (Matthies), which would only be correct if the predicates were exclusive attributes of the divine nature, so that, as a matter of course, the latter would suggest itself as the subject. (c) Where is the measure for all this? We have a right to say, “He loves all, therefore He loves me.” And we have a right to say, “He loves me, therefore He loves all.” For surely the love that has stooped to me can never pass by any human soul. In breadth, boundless : in length, endless: in depth, fathomless, exhaustless: in height, measureless. Not of the Christian church, as the spiritual temple of God, Revelation 21:16 (Heinsius, Homberg, Wolf, Michaelis, Cramer, Koppe, and others; comp. Then again, what is the depth of that love? 1. By desiring that they should comprehend it with all saints, he shows that it is the most excellent blessing which they can obtain in the present life; that it is the highest wisdom, to which all the children of God aspire. It is also the view of Theophylact and OEcumenius, followed by Beza, Bullinger, Piscator, Zanchius, Crocius, Crellius, Calovius, Rückert, Meier, Harless, Baumgarten-Crusius, and Olshausen. Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. There is the breadth of it. The previous training required for this measurement. ; Winer, p. 505 [E. T. 715]; Buttmann, p. 256 [E. T. 299]); but here the perfect participles are opposed to this, since they in fact would express not the state into which the readers are to come (“ita ut in amore sitis stabiles,” Morus), but the state in which they already are (so also Rückert), the state which is presupposed as predicate of the readers (so Harless and Olshausen). It all comes because this heaven-descended Christ has come down the long staircase of Incarnation, and has brought with Him into the clouds and oppressions of our terrestrial atmosphere a germ of life which He has planted in the heart of the race, there to spread forever. Omit "is". p. 333 [E. T. 389]. How often ἵνα and other conjunctions follow a part of the sentence which is with special emphasis prefixed, no matter whether that part of the sentence be subject or object (Romans 11:31; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:7; Acts 19:4; Galatians 2:10, al. Paul begins: “I pray so that you would be able to grasp, together with all the holy ones, what is the breadth and length and height and depth”. Paul does not ever conceive of a relationship with God, apart from God"s people. If you refuse to allow Christ to direct your life, if you spurn the opportunities to be strengthened by the Spirit"s revelation and if you are apathetic about loving God or other Christians more, then you will never really realize the greatness of His love. 21:15 Revelation We now come to consider more closely the science of heavenly mensuration itself. The temple at Jerusalem was that alone which he had in view; that alone could be fitly compared here; for that was built to be a habitation of God; that was his house, and that the place of his rest: so the Christian temple, and the believing heart, are to be the constant, the endless residence of God; and how august must that edifice be in which the eternal Trinity dwells! Into this temple the intervening paragraph describes the inbuilding of his Ephesians; and the present passage prays that they may fully, the blessings and glories of its structure. 3. Posts about Ephesians 3:18 written by tollelege. Still it must be inquired whether there be any object more supposably present at the moment to St. Paul’s mind in naming these dimensions than this, Meyer, with decisive confidence, identifies, in next verse as the object. Nor can we accede to Meyer, who seems to restrict it to brother-love; for if it be the grace of love which is here specified, then it is love to Christ, and to every creature that bears His image. λ.] The length of this love reaches from eternity to eternity (Jeremiah 31:3; Jeremiah 32:40). This was the mystery of chapter three; He takes Jews and Gentiles with nobody left out. At Ephesians 3:14, as we have noted, the for this cause being identical with the for this cause of Ephesians 3:1, and the entire of Ephesians 3:1-13 being parenthetical, Paul’s mind reverts back to Ephesians 2:20-22, where the glorious churchly temple stands out in full view. It is not necessary therefore to find a specific reference in each of the terms, still less to accept any one of the many mystical explanations. What, then, is the breadth of that love? And may not the latter depict its glory? Paul, in the vivacity of his imagination, conceives to himself the congregation of his readers as a plant (comp. But there is nothing to warrant such an allusion here, or even to give it a mere probability. And it gives life and symmetry to all the other graces, for confidence and hope in a being to whom you are indifferent, cannot have such vigour and permanence as they have in one to whom the spirit is intelligently and engrossingly attached. Greek, “May be fully able.”. And with what reed shall we measure this stately building? If anything is to be supplied, it should probably be “of the mystery”—i.e., of the whole mystery on which St. Paul had been dwelling, including the predestination, the redemption, the call and union of Jews and Gentiles. Let's see what it is. The Greek verb translated, “may be able,” means, “to have the strength.” The verb translated, “comprehend,” means, “to lay hold of or seize.” Redemption, calling, perseverance. It is not a thing of today, suddenly conceived, and that may be suddenly laid aside; it is from eternity, and had its birth before the foundations of the earth were laid. “Master! ii., and the intervening verses which precede the prayer are, as already stated, a parenthesis. Will you find them? Ephesians 1:19) of the object he has in mind, borrowing the terms of mathematical magnitude (sacra illa Pauli mathematica). is not to be found out to perfection; see ( Job 1.64- πεισίστρατος ἐρρίζωσε τὴν τυραννίδα; Plutarch, De Fortun. In what terms of distance are we to express it? That they might form correct views of the freeness of God’s love (2 Timothy 1:9). Ephesians 3:18. Ephesians 3:18 English Standard Version (ESV). Let us thank Him and give our life to Him. And the Lord make it precious to you. It is a deliberate paradox. Colossians 2:2, note; unless the Nominative rather agrees with you may be able,(50) as the ardour of Paul was eagerly intent on what follows. Thus the aim of the two preceding parallel infinitive clauses is expressed, and the emphatically prefixed ἐν ἀγ. In Ephesians 3:19 the love is at length expressly mentioned; but in Ephesians 3:18 the fulness of God in itself; but this very fulness is also tinctured with love. He would have the subject always before them. 2. Don't jump to the conclusion that this is—what shall I say—fatalism? p. 534; Bos, Exerc. ix. The apostle acts upon the same method. In reference to human beings, the love of God, in its Breadth, is a girdle that encompasses the globe; its Length reaches from the eternal purpose of the mission of Christ, to the eternity of blessedness which is to be spent in his ineffable glories; its Depth reaches to the lowest fallen of the sons of Adam, and to the deepest depravity of the human heart; and its Height to the infinite dignities of the throne of Christ. Well does Calvin add-haec subtilitate sua placent, sed quid ad Pauli mentem? What is the length of the purpose of God? Besides, the break between, Our division of paragraphs clearly shows, we think, to what object these dimensions belong. What is the object in view in the mention of these dimensions? what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; It was his desire that others, as well as they, might appreciate the wonders of redemption. Comp. The two participles ἐῤῥιζομένοι and τεθεμελιωμένοι, are usually said to express the same idea by different figures-the one borrowed from botany and the other from architecture. And the “height.” “He who ascended is the same also who descended; therefore, God hath highly exalted Him.” He is high upon the throne of universal empire; and He says, “Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.” In the same height of glory to which He Himself has gone; to the same height as that throne on which He reigns; to that height of glory He purposes to bring us--a height to which no weapon can reach--a height at which there can be no sin--a height from which every step may be a stepping stone to higher glories. From what depths has He sought to rescue His wayward, erring children. Some refer the nouns-sacra illa Pauli mathematica, as Glassius calls them-to the Divine plan of redemption-the mystery of grace. [52] See App. (d) Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. Combining the two words gives the idea of to settle down at home. Shall the infinite thus bow itself to man? (a) Stoop of Divine love, condescending to consider us, to commune with us, to receive us in love, to bear with our faults, and to take us up from our low estate. Spurgeon. There is the height of it. From eternity to eternity! Why should you and I be worry warts? Scripture: Jeremiah 31:1-4, Ephesians 3:18. (A. Maclaren, D. D.). California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. What is the length of the love of Christ? * 1 Because of this, a I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ * [Jesus] for you Gentiles— 2 if, as I suppose, you have heard of the stewardship * of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, b 3 [namely, that] the mystery * was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly earlier. ἐν ἀγ. 3. He would have them exercised in the art of measurement. God did love us in His Son long before the world began. “It is as if Paul invited us to look at the universe--to the limitless sky above, to the limitless horizons on every side, to the depth of the earth and of the seas beneath us, and said, ‘The love of Christ is as vast as that’” (Barclay p. 132). Hence it appears that the end of faith and charity is, that we may arrive at a perfect faith; which may know, as far as it is intelligible, the greatness of his wisdom, his eternal duration, &c. (St. Thomas Aquinas, in Eph. Let me come to the very words of our text, and point out to you their order. We carry the instruments of our saintly art, and the object of our devout contemplation within ourselves. 4:9), так и заповедана (Ин. Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, As the lark soars and sings, and soars and sings, so shall we; but not as the lark, which soars aloft, but ever comes back to earth. So, in the middle of the sentence, if and how are placed, 1 Corinthians 11:14-15; 1 Corinthians 14:7; 1 Corinthians 14:16; and ἵνα itself, that, 1 Corinthians 14:12;(51), 2 Corinthians 2:4; but the words which precede these particles render the earnest striving [of his prayers] very emphatic.— ἐξισχύσητε) you may be able: even still further.— καταλαβέσθαι) to attain, to comprehend.— τί τὸ πλάτος καὶ μῆκος καὶ βάθος καὶ ὕψος, what is the breadth and length and depth and height) These dimensions of the spiritual temple refer to the fulness of God, Ephesians 3:19, to which the Church according to its capacity ought to correspond; comp. Broad as the race, and curtaining it over as some great tent may enclose on a festal day a whole tribe, the breadth of Christ’s love is the breadth of humanity. To get what Ephesians 3:20 means in detail, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. God manifests himself more fully and uniformly in the hearts of his people at one time than at another. The discovery of the Sinaitic manuscript leaves the weight of evidence in favor of the received order. The breadth and length, &c.] God’s mercy hath all the dimensions. If, for instance, he means him to understand the surveying of estates, he bids him measure a field containing an acre or two. Gentiles in their sin, in their idolatry? In the40th Psalm, verses6-8, "In the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God.". 2. All rights reserved. you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. Ephesians 3:18 NIV may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ NIV: New International Version As subsidiary to this, and the most essential part of it, he adds, “and to know the love of Christ” (Ephesians 3:19). Love led him to the Cross and love caused him to build his church (Matthew 16:18), which not being limited to Jerusalem, covers the whole earth and reaches to heaven itself!!! the church, the dimensions of which are given, ( Revelation The simplest answer is: to Chris’s love (Ephesians 3:19), and the connection found in that verse sustains this view. Passages from profane literature for the tropical usage of both words may be seen in Raphel, Herod. To sum up what we have said in four words. May be able - even still further: [ exischuseete (Greek #1840)] 'May be fully able.'. What is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. “The disclosure of this mystery is the heritage of all the people of God: it is fitting that they should have an intelligent appreciation of it. Но какое отношение это имеет к Павлу? 3. ix. That they might be able rightly to value it (Philippians 3:8-9). And there is another way to measure it. In order to spiritual knowledge, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, must as really shine into our hearts, as, in order to behold objects of nature, the light of the sun must shine into our eyes. 4. p. 788). The next clause is evidently the continuation of the idea begun in that of our text, and it runs: “and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.” It is the immeasurable measure, then; the boundless bounds and dimensions of the love of Christ which fires the apostle’s thoughts here. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. “Preach the gospel to every creature.”, (b) Covering hosts of iniquities. They are to easily understand the love of Christ, indeed hasn"t Paul set forth the ground work for their easily understanding it in the previous passages? , = “take hold of” (1 Corinthians 9:24; Philippians 3:12, etc.) 26. The entire structure of the holy fane is fitly framed and firmly held together, for it is “rooted and grounded in love.”. Such is the opinion of Ambrosiaster, who believes the apostle to describe a sphere or cube equal in length, breadth, and thickness, and imagines that such a figure represents the perfection and all including infinity of God. “What is the breadth and length and height and depth”: Of Jesus’ love for us (). Those who put their trust in the Saviour. The sense would then be: ‘That thus Christ may dwell in the hearts of you,' ἐν ταῖς καρδίἀς ὑμῶν, ἐῤῥιζωμένοι, rooted and grounded in love.' We cannot lay any stress on the dictum of Harless, that the omission of the article before the substantive proves it to be used in a subjective sense, and to signify our love to Christ. And I suppose that I may venture to use these expressions with a somewhat different purpose from that for which the apostle employs them: and to see in each of them a separate and blessed aspect of the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Before one can enjoy the light of the world, he must be born of the world’s love. τεθεμ., with Holzhausen and Harless, ἐν χριστῷ, which is not even required by the anarthrous ἀγάπῃ; for without an article (in amando) it has “vim quasi verbi,” Kühner, ad Xen. Oh the breadth, the length, the depth, the height! 18.With all saints—Inasmuch as you Gentile Ephesians are built with all other saints into the structure of a glorious Church. Then, in the next place, what is the length of the love of Christ? The length of this redemption extends from the eternity of God’s foresight to the reconciliation of Ephesians 1:10. If you will kindly refer to the text you will see what this previous education is which the apostle desired for the saints. Spurgeon. Any such knowledge as the natural understanding is capable of deriving from the words of Scripture is by no means spiritual knowledge. But height and depth, according to the RV. Тот, кто ею обладает, имеет вполне достаточно. Pulsford.). ), edited by Matthæi in 1782. cap. 7. what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and [⇑ See verse text ⇑] Paul wants his readers to grow in understanding God's love (Ephesians 3:18), something which requires God-given spiritual strength. ), the love of God (Chrys., Erasm., Grot., etc. ἐν ἀγάπῃ] is, in accordance with the following figures, the soil in which the readers were rooted and grounded, namely, in love, the effect of faith, Christian brotherly love; hence there is no reason in the relation of faith to love(188) for supplying after ἐῤῥιζ. As love keeps its object enshrined in the imagination, and allows it never to be absent from the thoughts; so love to Jesus gives Him such a cheerful and continued presence in the mind, that as it gazes ever upon the image, it is changed into its likeness, for it strives to realize the life of Christ. The breadth is seen in reaching out Divine mercy to sinners who are far off from God (Isaiah 65:1; Isaiah 45:22). May be able to comprehend, more fully and perfectly to perceive and understand, with all saints, which are or have been, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, the immense vastness, dignity, and perfection; either: 1. “May be strong”: “May be able to comprehend” (NASV). Is it the overall enormity of the subject? God is Love; and in that, an infinity of breadth, length, depth, and height, is included; or rather all breadth, length, depth, and height, are lost in this immensity. The love of Jesus Christ has been extended to kings upon their thrones, but with equal and more frequent bounty to the slaves in their dungeons. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” You cannot get a subject closer to you than to have it on the inner side of the eyes; that is to say, in the heart itself. 3. Why, the love of Jesus, even in this present life, is a height unspeakable, for has it not lifted us up to become sons of God? 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