Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
) "all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth".
The apostle, too, writing to the Ephesians, says that God "had proposed in Himself, at the dispensation of the fulfilment of the times, to recall to the head "(that is, to the beginning) "things universal in Christ, which are above the heavens and above the earth in Him."