To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Would, х etheleesen (G2309)] - 'willed to make known.' He resolves all into God's will, that man should not glory except in God's grace.
What - how inexhaustible!
The riches of the glory of this mystery. He accumulates phrase on phrase to enhance the greatness of the blessing in Christ bestowed by God on the Gentiles (cf. Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 3:8; Colossians 2:3). "The glory of this mystery" is the glory which this once hidden and now revealed truth makes you Gentiles partakers of; partly now, mainly when Christ shall come (Romans 5:2; Romans 8:17-18; Ephesians 1:18; Colossians 3:4): for there follows 'Christ in you, the hope of the (so Greek) glory.' The lower was the degradation of you Gentiles, the higher is the richness of the glory to which the mystery revealed now raises you. You were 'without Christ, and having no hope' (Ephesians 2:12). Now you have 'Christ in you, the hope of the glory' just mentioned. Alford translates 'Christ among you,' to answer to "this mystery among the Gentiles." But the whole clause, "Christ IN you (Ephesians 3:17), the hope of glory," answers to "the riches of the glory of this mystery," and not to the whole sentence, "this mystery among the Gentiles." The mystery made known 'among you Gentiles' is "Christ in you (now, by faith, as your hidden life, Colossians 3:3; Galatians 2:20), the hope of glory" (your hereafter to be manifested life). This last antithesis proves it (Romans 5:2; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 4:17).