Epistle to the Ephesians

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 5 authority 5 citations · 6 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 7

   Quoted directly across two paragraphs.

   " All things, then, are ordered from above for good, "that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God may be made known," according to the foreknowledge of the ages, "which he wrought in Christ.

2. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 2 authority 2 citations

   protrepticus 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly attributed to 'the blessed apostle', quoting language matching Ephesians.

   "I testify in the Lord that you no longer walk as the nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their heart;

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations

   book i, chapter i. · chapter xx.: on punishments.

   Ephesians is explicitly cited by chapter and verse as the source.

   But as before that time, our hopes in the goodness of God were obscure and uncertain, we gained the assurance of an express covenant, that we should be united in one Church with the seed of Israel, the children of the patriarchs, their law, that was the wall of separation between us, being broken down.

4. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

   chapter 2 · chapter 18 2 passages anchored here · chapter 19 2 passages anchored here

   The narrator explicitly attributes the phrase on wrestling against principalities and powers to Paul.

   And the man of God went out and withdrew into the desert, grieved that he had not been martyred, yet bearing witness day by day in his conscience and wrestling against the principalities and powers, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual forces of wickedness, as the blessed Paul says.

5. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 authority 1 citation

   letter 22

   Alludes directly to the Pauline injunction against letting anger persist overnight.

   That the sun ought not to set upon a brother's provocation, lest the night come between the two and leave behind, on the day of judgment, an inexcusable charge.

6. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   book 3

   Explicitly invoked as an apostolic letter applying prophetic allegory to Christ and the Church.

   and suggesting to the Ephesians that what was proclaimed at the beginning concerning the man who would leave father and mother, the two to become one flesh, this he recognizes in Christ and the Church.

7. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 extended 1 citation

   de carnis resurrectione

   Explicitly attributed to Paul's writing to the Ephesians and reinterpreted.

   but saying "in your hearts," which are substantives of the flesh, he has now reckoned even the inner man himself to the flesh, whom he constituted in the heart.

8. De Monogamia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de monogamia

   Explicitly attributed to the apostle writing to the Ephesians

   " The apostle too, writing to the Ephesians, says that God proposed in himself, for the dispensation of the fulfilment of the times, to gather up again all things in Christ to the head, that is, to the beginning, both the things that are above the heavens and those upon the earth, in him.

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