the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,Ephesians 1:18 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe eyes of your understanding being enlightened - The understanding is that power or faculty in the soul by which knowledge or information is received, and the recipient power is here termed the Eyes of the understanding; and we learn from this that ὁπερ ὁ οφθαλμος εν τῳ σωματι, τουτο ὁ νους εν τῃ ψυχη, as Philo expresses it: What the eye is to the body, the understanding is to the soul; and that as the eye is not light in itself, and can discern nothing but by the means of light shining, not only on the objects to be viewed, but into the eye itself; so the understanding of man can discern no sacred thing of or by itself, but sees by the influence of the Spirit of wisdom and revelation; for without the influence of God's Holy Spirit no man ever became wise unto salvation, no more than a man ever discerned an object, (no matter how perfect soever his eye might have been), without the instrumentality of light.
Instead of της διανοιας, of your understanding, της καρδιας, of your heart, is the reading of ABDEFG, and several others; also both the Syriac, all the Arabic, the Coptic, the Ethiopic, Armenian, Sahidic, Slavonian, Vulgate, and Itala, besides several of the fathers. The eyes of your Heart is undoubtedly the true reading.
The hope of his calling - That you may clearly discern the glorious and important objects of your hope, to the enjoyment of which God has called or invited you.
The riches of the glory of his inheritance - That you may understand what is the glorious abundance of the spiritual things to which you are entitled, in consequence of being made children of God; for if children, then heirs, heirs of that glorious inheritance which God has provided for the saints - for all genuine Christians, whether formerly Jews or Gentiles. On the chief subject of this verse, see the notes on Galatians 4:6, Galatians 4:7 (note).
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eyes.
Ephesians 5:8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Psalm 119:18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes...
Isaiah 29:10,18 For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers...
Isaiah 32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall listen.
Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed...
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us...
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God...
2 Corinthians 4:4,6 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ...
Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
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Ephesians 2:12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise...
Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
Romans 5:4,5 And patience, experience; and experience, hope...
Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for...
Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Colossians 1:5,23 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us...
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...
1 John 3:1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not...
his calling.
Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation with which you are called,
Romans 8:28-30 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose...
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful.
1 Thessalonians 2:12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Why also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness...
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called...
1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called...
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect...
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Ephesians 1:7,11 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace...
Ephesians 3:8,16 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given...
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