Ephesians 1:21 (WEB)
far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
Catechism · 4
In the Age of the Church
“It is the prayer of Paul, the apostle par excellence, which reveals to us how the divine solicitude for all the churches ought to inspire Christian prayer.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:1; Eph 1:16-23; Phil 1911; Col 1:3-6; 4:3-4, 12.
The Almighty
“It is in Christ's Resurrection and exaltation that the Father has shown forth "the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe".” — Catechism footnote: Eph 1:19-22.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“St. Paul insists on the manifestation of God's power” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 6:4; 2 Cor 13:4; Phil 3:10; Eph 1:19-22; Heb 7:16.
"From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"
“He is "far above all rule and authority and power and dominion", for the Father "has put all things under his feet."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 1:20-22.
Fathers and councils · 15
Gregory of Nyssa
“…peculiarities of the operations of the heavenly host: for there are, he says, “principalities,” and “thrones,” and “powers,” and “mights,” and “dominions.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. i. 16, and Eph. i. 21.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And for this reason God is “above all principality, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named,” of all things which have been created and established.” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“…gods at all, but even the idols of demons; and that there is one God, who is “above all principality, and dominion, and power, and every name which is named;” and that His Word, invisible by nature, was made palpable and visible among men, and did descend “to death, even the death of the cross;” also, that they who…” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
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Origen
“…“Who is above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.”” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Nor did He stand here, but taking the first fruits of thy nature He sat down ‘above all principality and power and might, and every name that is named not only in this world but in the world to come.’” — editor's note: Ephes. i. 21
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Ambrose of Milan
“…nor again, as doth Photinus, holding that the Son first came into existence in the Virgin’s womb: nor believing, with Arius, in a number of diverse Powers, and so, like the benighted heathen, making out more than one God.” — editor's note: Compare Eph. i. 21; Col. i. 16. Hierarchies of “Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers,” were characteristic features of the Gnostic systems of the…
Read the whole comment“…to the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of this world, not according to Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of Godhead in bodily shape.”” — editor's note: It would, I think, be unfair to construe this passage into an absolute condemnation of all the results of human activity, arrived at without any conscious…
Read the whole comment“So far as His flesh is concerned, then, He endures the assault of wild beasts; in regard of His Godhead, He is adored by angels.” — editor's note: S. Mark i. 13. Cf. Eph. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“…power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under His feet.”” — editor's note: Eph. i. 20, 21.
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Jerome
“We, it is true, refuse to worship or adore, I say not the relics of the martyrs, but even the sun and moon, the angels and archangels, the Cherubim and Seraphim and “every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come.”” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“For in his book Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν he says that angels, and thrones, and dominions, powers and rulers of the world, and of darkness, andevery name which is named, not only in this world, but in that which is to come, become the souls of those bodies which they have taken on either through their…” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
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Leo the Great
“…and hath put all things under His feet, and given Him to be the head over all the Church which is His body, and the fulness of Him Who filleth all in all.”” — editor's note: Ephes. i. 15–23.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…and power and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to came, and put all things in subjection under His feet.” — editor's note: Eph. i. 19 b–22 a.
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Tertullian
“It was He who “wrought in Christ His mighty power, by raising Him from the dead, and setting Him at His own right hand, and putting all things under His feet”—even the same who said: “Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Eph. i. 19–22.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…groans and travails in pain, the Gospel came into the world, and passed through every Principality, and Power, and Dominion, and every Name that is named.” — editor's note: Eph. i. 21.
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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in Catechism §668.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VII.13.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VII.13.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VII.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.19.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.19.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Catechism §668.
Cited together in Catechism §272.
Cited together in Catechism §272.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.24.
Cited together in Catechism §668.
Cited together in Catechism §668.
Cited together in Catechism §668.
Cited together in Catechism §648.