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 — the believers' dunamis ('power') meta pantōn tōn hagiōn ('together with all the saints') enables katalambanō ('to grasp,' seize intellectually) the hyperbolic dimensions of Christ's agapē ('love'): platos kai mēkos kai hypsōs kai bathos, the cosmic breadth and length and height and depth of redemptive love. And to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God — the paradox: believers are called to know (ginōskō) the agapē that hyperballō gnōsin ('surpasses knowledge,' exceeds cognitive grasp), culminating in the fillthe plērōma tou theou ('filled to the measure of all the fullness of God'), believers as vessels of divine plenitide.

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