May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Ver. 18. The breadth and length, &c.] God's mercy hath all the dimensions. "Thy mercy, O God, reacheth to the heavens," Psalms 36:5. There is the height of it. "Great is thy mercy toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell," Psalms 86:13. There is the depth of his mercy. "The earth is full of thy goodness." There is the breadth of it. "All the ends of the earth have seen thy salvation." There is the length of it. The apostle sets out Christ's love with the four dimensions of the cross; to put us in mind (say the ancient writers) that upon the extent of the tree was the most exact love with all the dimensions in this kind represented, that ever was.