That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
12. That we should be to the praise of his glory. Here again he mentions the final cause of salvation; for we must eventually become illustrations of the glory of God, if we are nothing but vessels of his mercy.
God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ blesses us with all spiritual blessings in and through Him. No good can come from a righteous God to sinful creatures except through His mediation. Where God blesses with spiritual blessings, He blesses with all of them; to whom He gives Christ, He freely gives all these things.
AI summary
Commenting on Ephesians 1:3-14
That we should be to the praise of his glory,.... This is the end of predestination to the inheritance; and the sense is, either that the praise of the glory of God, in his grace and goodness, might be discovered and made known unto the saints, as it is displayed in election, redemption, justification, pardon, adoption, regeneration, and eternal salvation; or that they should praise...