But Paul is not finished. He wants to go deeper yet, so he moves from our love to the source of all love in Christ's love for us. Lovers are people who have been loved. And if someone has missed out on love from their family, they need to know even more the love of Christ and the love of the family of God. There is a puzzle here.
Love is the infinite that is beyond knowing.
All else passes away, love remains. To elaborate on the scope of this love Paul speaks of it as having four dimensions. It sounds like an echo of a dialogue between Job and his comforters. They are higher than the heavens, deeper than Sheol, longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. Paul is telling us that now we can learn what is unfathomable to human intelligence, for it has been revealed to us in the incarnate Christ.