ACC ~ Ephesians 3 v7

GRACE GIVEN BY THE WORKING OF GOD’S POWER. MARIUS VICTORINUS: Everywhere Paul reminds us that we receive God’s gifts not by our own merit but by grace. Grace belongs to the giver, not to the recipient. And by adding “according to the working of his power,” he also ascribes this to God, so that “if I do any work, it is God’s power. For it is not my power that works in me but God’s.” EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.3.7-8.

PROCLAMATION REQUIRES GRACE, PREPARATION AND PRUDENT UNDERSTANDING. CHRYSOSTOM: The gift was not sufficient if he did not provide power along with it. And, great as the power was, human zeal was not sufficient either. For Paul brought three things to the task of proclamation: ready and boiling fervor, a soul prepared to bear anything whatever and prudent understanding. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 6.3.7.

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