His body Compare Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 3:6.
fulness. See Ephesians 1:10. His members "fill up" the body of Christ, and the body of Christ fills up and completes "the dispensation of the fulness of the times". The apostle adopts the term used by the Gnostics, pleroma (Colossians 2:9; Colossians 2:10). See note on Ephesians 2:2 (prince).
filleth all in all. He fills up all the members with all spiritual gifts and graces.