Efésios 1
Ambrosiaster · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Efésios 1:1
He writes not only to the faithful but to the saints to show that they are truly faithful insofar as they have been sanctified in Christ. For a good life is worthwhile and is called saintly if it is lived in the name of Jesus. Otherwise it is polluted, because it injures the Creator. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.1
Efésios 1:2
He calls God our Father because all things are created and restored in him. He calls Christ Lord because he redeems us, offering himself on our behalf. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.2
Efésios 1:3
He means not with an earthly but a heavenly blessing, not corruptible but eternal, because Christ's glory is not in earth but in heaven and in Christ. For every gift of God's grace is in Christ. If someone who despises Christ imagines that he is blessed by God, he is wrong. Yet God is blessed in one way, humans in another. There is indeed one term blessing, but it should be understood as is proper to the recipient.… God is blessed when he is extolled with due praises, but the way in which God blesses human beings is to impart to them the gift of his grace, not according to their merits but according to his mercy. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.3.1-2
Efésios 1:4
God, foreknowing all, knew who were going to believe in Christ. … Therefore those whom God is said to call will persevere in faith. These are the ones whom he elected before the world in Christ, so that they might be blameless before God through love—that is, so that the love of God might give them holy lives. For no one can show greater respect toward another than when he obeys in love. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.4
Efésios 1:9
The pleasure of God, whose counsel cannot be changed, was to show in Christ the mystery of his will. This happened at the time when he chose that he should be revealed. Now his will was this, that he should then draw close to all who were in sin, either in heaven or in earth. God gave Christ to bring believers the gift of forgiveness of their sins through faith in Christ. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.9.1
Efésios 1:12
What he means is that God first allotted the task of preaching to those believers in Christ who were from a Jewish background. Therefore no one of Gentile background was chosen to be an apostle. It was fitting that the first preachers should be chosen from those who had previously hoped for the salvation that had been promised to them in Christ. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.12
Efésios 1:14
Just as it is the glory of a doctor if he cures many, so it is to the praise of God's glory when many are won for the faith. And so it is part of God's glory to have called the Gentiles that they might obtain their salvation through the faith promised to the Jews. The Gentiles have as a sign of their redemption and future inheritance the Holy Spirit, given at baptism. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.14
Efésios 1:17
The hope of their faith lies in a heavenly reward. When they truly know what the fruit of believing is, they will become more eager in acts of worship. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.18.1
Efésios 1:22
He says that the Father has subjected all creation to the Son, so that he may be the head and Lord of all on account of being the one through whom he made all things. He "made all things subject to him" when he generated him before all things, that through him all that had not been might come into being. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.23