“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all respects grow up into him who is the head, that is, Christ — the antidote: alētheuō ('speak truth') en agapē ('in love'), the community auxanō ('grows') eis auton ('into him'), its kephalē ('head'), Christus, the organic maturation toward Christ as the integrating principle.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:15
“But speaking truth,” says he, “in love, may grow up in all things into Him, which is the Head, even Christ, from whom,” (that is, from Christ,) “all the body fitly framed and knit together, through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each several part, makes increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.” He expresses himself with great obscurity, from his desire to utter everything at once. What he means, however, is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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