“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,”
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people — the intercession begins with Paul's thanksgiving for the Ephesians' faith (pistis) in Christ and love (agapē) for the saints, the twin foundations of Christian existence and the basis upon which his petition rests.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:15
Never was anything equal to the yearnings of the Apostle, never anything like the sympathy and the affectionateness of the blessed Paul, who made his every prayer in behalf of whole cities and peoples, and writes the same to all, “I thank my God for you, making mention of you in my prayers.” Think how many he had in his mind, whom it were a labor so much as to remember; how many he made mention of in his prayers, giving thanks to God for them all as though he himself had…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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