“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence — the believers' approach (prosagōgē, 'access,' standing before God) to God occurs en autō ('in Christ') and dia tēs pisteōs ('through faith'), with parrhēsia ('boldness,' freedom of speech) and pepoithēsis ('confidence,' settled trust).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:12
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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