Colossians 3:11 (WEB)
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, “And He Himself is all things;” and again, “All things are to Him, and of Him are all things;” and further, “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead;” and yet again, “All things are gathered together by God in Christ.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
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Jerome
“For he has one Church, concerning which the same Apostle says, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 25; Col. iii. 9–11.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And that thou mightest know that when he says: “That God may be all in all,” he does not separate Christ from God the Father, he also says to the Colossians: “Where there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
Read the whole comment“But if these things are requisite in a house, how much more in the Church, “where we, both rich and poor, bond and free, Greek and Scythian, noble and common, are all one in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female;” “but Christ is all, and in all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28 and Col. iii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Scripture mentions these two classes of people, and leaves out no kind of men, when it says, “Circumcision and uncircumcision;” in these two appellations thou hast all nations: they are the two metretæ apiece.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.20On Virginity
““There is neither male nor female,” the Apostle says; “Christ is all, and in all”; and so it is equally reasonable that he who is enamoured of wisdom should hold the Object of his passionate desire, Who is the True Wisdom; and that the soul…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…made one in Christ, who was perfectly made in all of us all that He Himself is, that we might no longer be male and female, barbarian, Scythian, bond or free (which are badges of the flesh), but might bear in ourselves only the stamp of God, by Whom and for Whom we were made, and have so far received our form and…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 11.
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Cross-references · 13
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