Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ephesians 1:1

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 53, footnote 15 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle to the Ephesians: Shorter and Longer Versions (HTML)

Chapter IX.—Ye have given no heed to false teachers. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 553 (In-Text, Margin)

... way and the life.” And this way leads to the Father. For “no man,” says He, “cometh to the Father but by Me.” Blessed, then, are ye who are God-bearers, spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, being “a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people,” on whose account I rejoice exceedingly, and have had the privilege, by this Epistle, of conversing with “the saints which are at Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus.”[Ephesians 1:1] I rejoice, therefore, over you, that ye do not give heed to vanity, and love nothing according to the flesh, but according to God.