rwp - Ephesians:1:22-23

rwp@Ephesians:1:22 @{He put all things in subjection} (\panta hupetaxen\). First aorist active indicative of \hupotass\, quoted from strkjv@Psalms:8:7| as in strkjv@1Corinthians:15:27|. {Gave him to be head} (\auton edken kephaln\). {Gave} (\edken\, first aorist active indicative of \didmi\) to the church (the universal spiritual church or kingdom as in strkjv@Colossians:1:18,24|) Christ as Head (\kephaln\, predicate accusative). This conception of \ekklsia\ runs all through Ephesians (3:10,21; strkjv@5:23,24,25,27,29,32|).

rwp@Ephesians:1:23 @{Which} (\htis\). "Which in fact is," explanatory use of \htis\ rather than \h\. {The fulness of him that filleth all in all} (\to plrma tou ta panta en psin plroumenou\). This is probably the correct translation of a much disputed phrase. This view takes \plrma\ in the passive sense (that which is filled, as is usual, strkjv@Colossians:1:19|) and \plroumenou\ as present middle participle, not passive. All things are summed up in Christ (1:10|), who is the \plrma\ of God (Colossians:1:19|), and in particular does Christ fill the church universal as his body. Hence we see in Ephesians the Dignity of the Body of Christ which is ultimately to be filled with the fulness (\plrma\) of God (3:19|) when it grows up into the fulness (\plrma\) of Christ (4:13,16|).