“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)”
In reading this then you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ — the readers' comprehension (synesis, 'understanding,' intellectual grasp) of the mysterion Christou ('mystery of Christ') depends on reading Paul's exposition, which unfolds the revelation granted to him.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:4
“Whereby, when you read, you can perceive.” Amazing! So then he wrote not the whole, nor so much as he should have written. But here the nature of the subject prevented it. Elsewhere, as in the case of the Hebrews Hebrews 5:11 and the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 3:2 the incapacity of the hearers. “Whereby, when you read, you can perceive,” says he, “my understanding in the mystery of Christ,” i.e., how I knew, how I understood either such things as God has spoken, or else,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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