ACC ~ Ephesians 1 v10a

HOW THE FULLNESS OF TIME WAS DETERMINED. CHRYSOSTOM: The “fullness of time” was the Son’s appearing. When, then, God had done all through angels, through prophets and through the law, yet nothing had improved, there was a danger that humanity had come into being for nothing. It was not going merely nowhere but to the bad. All were perishing together, just like in the days of the flood but more so. Just then he offered this gracious dispensation—to ensure that creation should not have come into being for nothing or in vain. The “fullness of time” is that divine wisdom by which, at the moment when all were most likely to perish, they were saved. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 1.1.10.

THE COORDINATION OF THE WORK OF THE FATHER AND THE SON. CHRYSOSTOM: See how precisely he speaks. The origin is from the Father—the design, the resolution, the first initiative. The embodied fulfillment of the design came through the Son, who is never called servant but always Son. … What the Father has willed in the Son is not external to his will. What the Son has done has not deprived the Father of his willing action. All is common in the relation of Father and Son. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 1.1.10.

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