“Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ — the greeting fuses Jewish shalom with Greek charis, invoking both divine favor (charis) and the wholeness of redemption, a benediction that opens into the greatest doxology in Scripture.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 1:2
Observe, he applies the word “through” to the Father. But what then? Shall we say that He is inferior? Surely not. Observe that he calls saints, men with wives, and children, and domestics. For that these are they whom he calls by this name is plain from the end of the Epistle, as, when he says, “Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands.” Ephesians 5:22 And again, “Children, obey your parents:” Ephesians 6:1 and, “Servants, be obedient to your masters.” Ephesians 6:5…
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