that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
We must pray for those whom we give thanks for; God has appointed us to draw out these spiritual blessings by faith and prayer. Faith in Christ and love to all the saints, even the weak, the mean, the fretful, go together, and those who love saints as such love God. Though they have received the earnest of inheritance, they need not less but more our prayers.
AI summary
Commenting on Ephesians 1:15-23
These words give us a short, but very comprehensive, account of that affectionate prayer which St. Paul put up to God on the behalf of these Ephesians, newly converted to Christianity; in which observe, 1. The person whom he prays unto, God, under a very endearing title, for the strengthening of his faith; he styles him, not as the Old-Testament saints, the God of Abraham...
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (18) The causes of faith are God the Father enlightening our minds with his Holy Spirit, so that we may embrace Christ revealed to us in the Gospel, to the obtaining of everlasting life, and the setting forth of God's glory.