Ye are complete. — Literally, ye have been filled up in His fulness, as in John 1:16. So St. Paul had prayed for the Ephesians that they might be “filled with (or rather, up to) all the fulness of God,” and “grow into the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 3:19; Ephesians 4:13). To partake of the divine plerorna is not the special privilege of the initiated; it belongs to all who are united to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Principality and power. — See Colossians 1:16. His headship over all angelic natures is dwelt upon (as in Hebrews 1:1) with obvious reference to the worshipping of angels. They are our fellowservants under the same Head. (See Revelation 22:8.)

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