There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
When the blessed Paul exhorts us to anything of special importance, so truly wise and spiritual as he is, he grounds his exhortation upon things in Heaven: this itself being a lesson he had learned from the Lord. Thus he says also elsewhere, Walk in love, even as Christ also has loved us. Ephesians 5:2 And again, Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God. Philippians 2:5-6 This is what he is doing here also, for whenever the examples he is setting before us are great, he is intense in his zeal and feeling. What then does he say, now he is inciting us to unity? There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling:
