131 Cf. Phil. 2:9-11.
131Cf. Phil. 2:9-11.
132Cf. Eph. 4:1.
133Gk. τὸ ὑπεϱβάλλον μέγεθος τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ . . . ϰατὰ τὴν ἐνέϱγειαν τοṽ ϰϱάτους τῆς ỉσχύος αὐτοṽ. Cf. the rather less elaborate construction of Col. 1:11, ἐν πάσῃ δυνὰμει δυναμούμενοι ϰατὰ τò ϰϱάτος τῆς δóξης αὐτοῦ (“empowered with all power in accordance with his glorious might”).
134C. E. B. Cranfield, The Epistle to the Romans, ICC, I (Edinburgh, 1975), 304.
135See P. T. O’Brien, “Ephesians 1: An Unusual Introduction to a New Testament Letter,” NTS 25 (1978-79), 505.
136For the aorist ἐνήϱγησεν (the verb is cognate with the antecedent ἐνέϱγειαν in v. 19) A B Ψ 81 pc read the perfect ἐνήϱγηϰεν.