106 See pp. 100-101.
103Origen, Catenae 6.162; cf. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Ephesians, 3.5; J. Calvin, Ephesians, p. 168 (”By these dimensions Paul means nothing other than the love of Christ, of which he speaks afterwards”).
104If ϰατοιϰῆσαι (v. 17) is ingressive aorist, the same might be said of γνѽναι (in γνѽναί τε τὴν ὑπεϱβάλλουσαν τῆς γνώσεως ἀγάπην τοῦ Xϱιστου), but it is not ingressive in Paul’s statement of his ambition: τοῦ γνѽναι αὐτóν (Phil. 3:10).
105ἵνα πληϱωθῆτε εỉς πᾶν τò πλήϱωμα τοῦ θεοῦ. To render εἰς by “with” (as in the RSV: “that you may be filled with all the fulness of God”) is unsatisfactory. (The NEB is better: “So may you attain to fullness of being, the fullness of God himself”)
106See pp. 100-101.