“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:”
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better — the petition requests the pneuma sophias kai apokalypseōs ('spirit of wisdom and revelation'), not a second gift of the Spirit (whom they possess) but the Spirit's empowering for gnōsis ('knowledge,' experiential knowing) of God, the pathē ('opening,' disclosure) of divine mystery.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:17
Never was anything equal to the yearnings of the Apostle, never anything like the sympathy and the affectionateness of the blessed Paul, who made his every prayer in behalf of whole cities and peoples, and writes the same to all, “I thank my God for you, making mention of you in my prayers.” Think how many he had in his mind, whom it were a labor so much as to remember; how many he made mention of in his prayers, giving thanks to God for them all as though he himself had…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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