“Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.”
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me — Paul's toil (kopiao, labor intensely) is energized by divine dynamis (power, energy) working within him. 'His energy' (he energeia autou) shows Christ's resurrection-power becomes Paul's capacity. The human and divine co-operate without confusion: Paul strives, but Christ energizes. This is mystical realism: divine power and human effort are unified.
Church Fathers on Colossians 1:29
Having said what we have come to, and showed the lovingkindness of God and the honor, by the greatness of the things given, he introduces yet another consideration that heightens them, namely, that neither before us did any one know Him. As he does also in the Epistle to the Ephesians, saying, neither Angels, nor principalities, nor any other created power, but only the Son of God knew. Ephesians 3:5-10 And he said, not simply hid, but “quite hid,” and that even if it has but…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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