Verse 36
36. In the triad of this verse we recognise a dim reference to the distinctive attributes of the three persons of the Trinity.
Of him Rather, from him, as primitive source.
Through him As universal medium and agent.
To him As End, to which all things redound. This third, however, would seem to refer to the Spirit only as finale deity after the economy of salvation closes. The triad in Ephesians 4:6, is more perfectly trinitarian, “Above all, through all, and in you all.” Alford very accurately says, “Though Paul has never definitively expressed the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as a definite formula, yet he was conscious of it as a living reality.” Even the triad (Romans 11:33) of riches, wisdom, knowledge source, medium, and result is not without its trinitarian look. And to this mystic Trine is ascribed glory eternal under the unquestionable sense of a divine attribute. What a dim yet decisive adumbration of the three-one God!
The entire First Part or Argument (see “Plan”) is now closed. The very shape of the Epistle presents in type the great fact that our obligation to the duties of Life springs as a result from the doctrines of Christianity. Hence we title this Second Part:
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