“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people — the ophthalmous tēs kardias ('eyes of the heart') is the interior faculty of spiritual perception; Paul prays for photismos ('illumination') enabling the community to grasp tris meta ('three things'): the hope of calling, the riches of glory in the inheritance, and the power available to believers.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:18
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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