“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
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.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:19
“To the end that you being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.” Thus is his prayer now again, the very same as when he began. For what were his words in the beginning? “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; having the eyes of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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