Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ephesians 1:7

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 542, footnote 1 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book V (HTML)

Chapter XIV.—Unless the flesh were to be saved, the Word would not have taken upon Him flesh of the same substance as ours: from this it would follow that neither should we have been reconciled by Him. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4568 (In-Text, Margin)

... reconciled which had formerly been in enmity. Now, if the Lord had taken flesh from another substance, He would not, by so doing, have reconciled that one to God which had become inimical through transgression. But now, by means of communion with Himself, the Lord has reconciled man to God the Father, in reconciling us to Himself by the body of His own flesh, and redeeming us by His own blood, as the apostle says to the Ephesians, “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;”[Ephesians 1:7] and again to the same he says, “Ye who formerly were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ;” and again, “Abolishing in His flesh the enmities, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances.” And in every Epistle the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 531, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints. (HTML)

A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance. (HTML)

Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3591 (In-Text, Margin)

... have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, which has abounded towards them in all wisdom and prudence; that He might show them the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Him, in the dispensation of the fulness of times to restore all things in Christ which are in heaven and which are in earth; in Him, in whom also we have obtained a lot, being predestinated according to His purpose who worketh all things.”[Ephesians 1:4-11] Against a trumpet of truth so clear as this, what man of sober and watchful faith can receive any human arguments?