ACC ~ Ephesians 4 v4a

THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ONENESS OF THE CHURCH. CHRYSOSTOM: 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. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 10.4.4.

ONE BODY, ONE SPIRIT. JEROME: 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. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.4.3-4.

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