“To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,”
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms — the ecclesia ('church') itself becomes the vehicle of divine disclosure: hina gnōristhē ('that might be made known') the polypoikilos sophia ('manifold wisdom,' variegated, colorful wisdom) theou ('of God') to archē kai exousiai ('rulers and authorities') in the heavenlies, a cosmic declaration to spiritual powers.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:10
They who go to the physician's have not merely to go there and nothing further; they have to learn how to treat themselves, and to apply remedies. And so with us then who come here, we must not do this and nothing else, we must learn our lesson, the surpassing lowliness of Paul. What? When he was about to speak of the vastness of the grace of God, hear what he says, “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given.” Lowliness indeed it was even to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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