Verse 20
20. St. Paul now pictures the stupendous working of this power, beginning with Christ’s resurrection, and finishing (Ephesians 1:23) with his glorious supremacy. No human machineries nay, no catastrophes in geology, no forces in astronomy furnish to the eyes divinely enlightened so sublime and so gracious a display of the omnipotence of the Father of glory as the work he hath wrought in Christ. And the glory of this work has the profoundest interest for us, as we are identified with Christ through all the stages here traced. So the apostle will show in Ephesians 2:1-7. This work was in Christ, but for us who believe.
From the dead From deads, or dead ones; being the Greek genitive plural without the article. See note on Luke 20:35.
Right hand See notes on Acts 7:55-56. The spirit eyes of the martyr Stephen were so enlightened and vivified as to see the realities of God and Christ in the supernal world; namely, Christ at the right hand of God. See our note, Romans 8:34.
In heavenly places In those superterrene domains which our eyes of flesh cannot see unless, like Stephen’s, supernaturally quickened. See note on Ephesians 1:3.
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