“One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in you all — heis theos kai patēr pantōn ('one God and Father of all'), epi pantōn ('over all,' transcendent), kai dia pantōn ('through all,' immanent), kai en pasin hymin ('in you all,' indwelling), the trinitarian and monotheistic culmination of the unity formula.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:6
The love Paul requires of us is no common love, but that which cements us together, and makes us cleave inseparably to one another, and effects as great and as perfect a union as though it were between limb and limb. For this is that love which produces great and glorious fruits. Hence he says, there is “one body”; one, both by sympathy, and by not opposing the good of others, and by sharing their joy, having expressed all at once by this figure. He then beautifully adds,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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