Ephesians 3:15 (WEB)
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Fathers and councils · 9
Athanasius of Alexandria
“For God does not make man His pattern; but rather we men, for that God is properly, and alone truly, Father of His Son, are also called fathers of our own children; for of Him ‘is every fatherhood in heaven and earth named.’” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 15.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For it is right, in the first place, to expound the truth that the Father is one God, “of whom is every family,” “by whom are all things, of whom are all things, and we in Him.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For that in the head the substance is the formative brain from which the entire family is fashioned.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…“On this account I bend my knees to the God and Father and Lord of our Lord Jesus Christ, that God would grant you to have Christ dwelling in the inner man,”—that is, the natural (man), not the corporeal (one),—“that you may be able to understand what is the depth,” which is the Father of the universe, “and what is…” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14–18.
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John Damascene
“And this also it behoves us to know, that the names Fatherhood, Sonship and Procession, were not applied to the Holy Godhead by us: on the contrary, they were communicated to us by the Godhead, as the divine apostle says, Wherefore I bow the knee to the Father, from Whom is every family in heaven and on earth.” — editor's note: Ephes. iii. 14 and 15: Cyril, Thes., assert. 32: Dionys., De divin. nom., c. 1.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Ephesians iii. 14, 15” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“He is called also the Spirit of the Father, as the Saviour says, For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you; and again Paul saith, For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, and the rest;…that He would grant you to be strengthened by His Spirit.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14–16.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…unto us a more excellent way of charity; and where he bows his knees unto Thee for us, that we may know the super-eminent knowledge of the love of Christ.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14–19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“As, then, the whole family runs back to God the Creator; so also all the teaching of good things, which justifies, does to the Lord, and leads and contributes to this.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14, 15.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.7.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.