“That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:”
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus — the heart of the mystery (to mystērion itself): ta ethnē ('the Gentiles') are synkleronomoi ('co-heirs'), syssōma ('members of one body'), and symmetexa tēs epangelias ('sharers of the promise') in Christ, the stunning revelation that pagans are grafted into covenant blessing.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:6
“That the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body and fellow partakers.” What is this; “fellow-heirs, and fellow-partakers of the promise, and fellow-members of the body?” This last is the great thing, that they should be one body; this exceeding closeness of relation to Him. For that they were to be called indeed, that they knew, but that it was so great, as yet they knew not. This therefore he calls the mystery. “Of the promise.” The Israelites were…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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