Vers. 18, 19. +The eyes of your understanding being enlightened . . . to us-ward who believe.+--Three pictures for heaven-illumined eyes: 1. +The hope of His calling.+--Meyer says "the hope" is not here (nor anywhere) the _res sperata,_ "the object on which hope fastens, but the great and glorious hope which God gives"--a statement too sweeping for other scholars, though _here_ they agree that it is the _faculty_ of hope "which encourages and animates." 2. +The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.+--"What a copious and grand accumulation, mirroring, as it were, the weightiness of the thing itself!" (_Meyer_). "Riches of the glory" must not be watered down into "glorious riches." 3. +The exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward.+--The amazing and wholly unexpected working of the same Hand that wrought our first deliverance: the Power that smites the oppressor with dismay opens the path through the sea (see Isa. xl. 10, 11). +According to the working of His mighty power.+--This may be regarded as a specimen of the Divine power, the norm or standard by which we may gain an idea of the "exceeding greatness" of it--that from the tomb of His humiliation Christ was raised by that power to an unrivalled dignity in God's throne. The R.V. gives _"working of the strength of His might"_: _"working"_--"the active exertion of power" (_Meyer_); _"strength"_--might _expressing itself_ in overcoming resistance, ruling, etc.; _"might"--strength in itself_ as inward power. Ver. 20. +Set Him at His own right hand.+--_"Dexter Dei ubique est."_ We cannot dogmatise about the relations to space which a glorified body holds. The transcendent glory of God in that body links God to man, the humanity in the glory gives man his claim in God. "The true commentary on the phrase is Mark xvi. 19, 'He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God'" (_Meyer_). Ver. 21. +Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion.+--R.V., "Rule, and authority, and power, and dominion." "To be understood of the _good_ angels, since the apostle is not speaking of the victory of Christ over opposing powers, but of His exaltation above the existing powers of heaven" (_Meyer_). "Powers and dominions, deities of heaven," as Milton calls them, ranged here, perhaps, in a descending order. +And every name that is named.+--"God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name." "Let any name be uttered, whatever it is, Christ is above it, is more exalted than that which the name affirms" (_Meyer_). +Not only in this world.+--"This age." "No other name under heaven given among men." +But also in that which is to come.+--There Zechariah's word will have its fullest application. "The Lord shall be King over all the earth; _there shall be one Lord, and His name one._" Ver. 22. +And hath put all things under His feet.+--Compare 1 Cor. xv. 27.