Ephesians 3:8

ἐμοὶ τῷ ἐλαχιστοτέρῳ πάντων ἁγίων. The thought of the commission instinctively wakens a sense of his own unworthiness. Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:8. The same trait is noticeable in the Pastorals (1 Timothy 1:12 f.; cf. Ephesians 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:11). A strong note of genuineness.

The commission included first a direct work in preaching to the Gentiles, opening their eyes and so introducing them to the fulness of their inheritance, as described in Ephesians 3:6 and in the prayer Ephesians 1:18 f. The inheritance presents itself as ‘unsearchable riches.’

ἀνεξιχνίαστον. ‘Unsearchable’ or ‘inscrutable’ (Romans 11:33; Job 5:9; Prayer of Manas. 2).

πλοῦτος. See on Ephesians 1:7. Cf. Colossians 2:3.