Ephesians 4:4

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
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Clement Of Rome

AD 99
Among you? Have we not . among you? Have we not

Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258
Trust that he is in the Church, when moreover the blessed Apostle Paul teaches the same thing, and sets forth the sacrament of unity, saying, "There is one body and one spirit, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God? "

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
In one hope of your vocation. The three great reasons that we have to love one another are contained in this verse, because we have but one body, of which Christ is the head. We are all animated by the same spirit, viz. the Holy Spirit, who is given to us all, and we all live in the same hope of eternal happiness. (Calmet)

Ignatius of Antioch

AD 108
And ye are, as Paul wrote to you, "one body and one spirit, because ye have also been called in one hope of the faith. For "there is also "saith . And again, "We have drunk of one Spirit"

Jerome

AD 420
If the Father’s house has many mansions, how are we to say that we are called to one hope? One reply is that the one hope of the calling is the kingdom of God. It is as though we were to speak of the one house of God or say that in one house are many mansions. … Or again, this subtler meaning may be implied: at the end and consummation of all things everything is to be restored to its original condition, when we are all made one body and formed anew into a perfect man. –.

Jerome

AD 420
His words one body and one Spirit can be taken most simply to mean the one body of Christ, which is the church. Or it could refer to the humanity of the Lord, which he assumed from the Virgin…. Yet indeed the one body can also refer to life and the works that are called in Greek “the practical life.” These are distinguished from the oneness of the Spirit in the heart that finds its unity in contemplation. –.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
What is this one body? They are the faithful throughout the world—in the present, in the past and in the future…. The body does exist apart from its enlivening spirit, else it would not be a body. It is a common human metaphor to say of things that are united and have coherence that they are one body. So we too take the term body as an expression of unity. .

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:

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
, "One God, and one baptism, and one church in the heavens."

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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