There is no need to reduce the apostle’s language to a formal regularity. The utterance of the Spirit’s mind, through a heart and understanding which felt its value as none ever did, clothed itself in a form more akin to that which was enunciated than man’s rhetoric ever conceived. A broken sentence, with a long interruption following before the answer was given, suits the subject here, no less than the most parenthetic chapter in the scripture falls in with the task the apostle had in hand in Ephesians