“That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:”
To be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment — to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ — the anakephalaiōsis (recapitulation, literally 'to make Christ the head of all') is the cosmic purpose, the unification of all creation under Christ as kephalē ('head'); Paul uses the language of cosmic gathering, summation, and reordering around the incarnate Christ.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:10
“Unto a dispensation of the fullness of the times to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, even in Him.” Heavenly things, he means to say, had been severed from earthly. They had no longer one Head. So far indeed as the system of the creation went, there was over all One God, but so far as management of one household went, this, amid the wide spread of Gentile error, was not the case, but they had been severed from His…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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