inwrought by the spirit of the Prince of the power of the air.  In the same way,

we who now seek to walk worthy of our high calling, who seek to fulfil the will

of God, who are guided by His written Word, we are not always conscious of the

power that alone makes such an effort possible or acceptable.

The doxology that has been interrupted by this testimony to the mighty

power that is related to its prayer, is resumed by the repetition of the words

`Unto Him':

`Unto Him be glory by the church and by Christ Jesus'

(author's translation).

A little previously the apostle had written that through the church

heavenly beings were learning the manifold wisdom of God (Eph. 3:10), and in

chapter 2 verse 7 he reveals that this church when raised and seated in the

heavenlies will show in the ages to come God's exceeding riches of grace in His

kindness toward them in Christ Jesus.

What we may do now in our small measure, `whether we eat or drink or

whatsoever we do', we shall do then in a fuller degree.  This is indeed

`fulness'.  It will be so for the very earth itself.  The marginal reading of

Isaiah 6:3 being:

`His glory is the fulness of the whole earth'.

When heaven and earth are united and the great dwelling of God is at last

complete, Psalm 29:9 (margin) will be fulfilled `Every whit of it uttereth

`For all the generations of the age of the ages'.

What this statement indicates is perhaps beyond our present abilities to

grasp.  When we read `A Hebrew of the Hebrews' or a `Pharisee of the Pharisees'

we know that we are reading of something superlative.  So here this represents

the climax and crown of time.

In Genesis 2:4 we read of the `generations of the heavens and of the

earth', a history which takes Genesis 2:5 to 4:26 to unfold.  Within this short

compass Sin, Death, Curse, The Two seeds and finally Seth are introduced.  Here

in Ephesians is the glorious opposite.  Sin and death will be unknown; no curse

will ever fall.  The false seed will have been gathered and removed as the tares

are, and God will be all in all.

There is scarcely anything more important and in need of more emphasis and

repetition than that doctrine must ever be accompanied by practice, that walk

must correspond with calling, that visible fruit must manifest the hidden root.

This correspondence of doctrine and practice is most happily displayed in the

epistle to the Ephesians.  It naturally divides into its two main sections --

the first three chapters containing the great revelation, the second three

chapters the resulting exhortation.  Take a few instances by way of

illustration.  To see the whole would necessitate a most detailed structure of

the epistle.