“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:”
In him we were also chosen as an inheritance — having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will — the community itself is the klēronomia (inheritance) in Christ, having been appointed (pro-horizō, predestined with a fixed boundary) according to God's boulē (deliberate counsel and purpose), establishing that redemption is no accident but the outworking of eternal intention.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:11
Paul earnestly endeavors on all occasions to display the unspeakable loving-kindness of God towards us, to the utmost of his power. For that it is impossible to do so adequately, hear his own words. “O! The depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past tracing out.” Romans 11:33 Still, notwithstanding, so far as it is possible, he does display it. What then is this which he is saying; “In whom also we were…
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