Ephesians 3:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whereby when ye read,— By attending to which. It has been observed, that what follows is the highest encomium made by the Apostle on any of his own writings; and thence it has been concluded, that this is the richest and noblest of all the epistles; which it is thought was peculiarly intended to be so, to reward the generous zeal of the Ephesians in burning their curious books, by a book of divine knowledge infinitely more valuable than any or all of them. See Acts 19:19.