Ephesians 3:17 (WEB)
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Catechism · 2
The Celebration of the Christian Mystery
“Through the liturgy the inner man is rooted and grounded in "the great love with which [the Father] loved us" in his beloved Son.” — Catechism footnote: Eph 2:4; 3:16-17.
Expressions of Prayer
“In it the Father strengthens our inner being with power through his Spirit "that Christ may dwell in (our) hearts through faith" and we may be "grounded in love."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 3:16-17.
Fathers and councils · 25
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.
Read the whole comment“For Christ dwelleth in the inner man, as the Apostle says; for to Him doth it appertain to see truth, since He hath said, “I am the truth.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“…in milk, but a young man in meat, “to comprehend the breadth, the length, the height, and depth, to know also the surpassing knowledge of the love of Christ.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17–19.
Read the whole comment“It is enjoined us then, that we sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion, that with one accord we praise the Lord, the Inhabitant of the Church.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“And because there now is root, “That ye may be able,” he saith, “to comprehend what is the height, and breadth, and length, and depth: to know also the supereminent knowledge of the love of Christ, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14, 17–19.
Read the whole comment“For Christ dwelleth through faith in our hearts; and therefore he saith, “with my mouth,” that is, with the mouth of my body, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“Let the “inner man” then, in whom “Christ” hath begun to “dwell by faith,” cry unto the Lord, not with the din of his lips, but with the affection of his heart.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“By holding charity, as saith the Apostle Paul, “rooted and grounded in charity.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…heart, i.e. in the inner temple of God (“For,” as it is said, “the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are;” and, “That Christ may dwell in the inner man by faith in your hearts”) if it occur to our mind that a brother hath ought against us, i.e. if we have injured him in anything (for then he has something…” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17. In interiore homine, a different construction from the Greek, which has εἰς with the accusative. So Vulgate, in interiorem hominem.
Read the whole comment“…breadth, and depth, and height; when we shall have known also the love of Christ that surpasseth knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fulness of God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17, etc.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle saith, “that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 14, 17–19.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle says, “that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“For he says, “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…inward exercise of thought; and go out, when we take to some active work without: and since, as the apostle saith, Christ dwelleth in our hearts by faith, to enter by Christ is to give ourselves to thought in accordance with that faith; but to go out by Christ is, in accordance also with that same faith, to take…” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“For what else says the apostle: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“She says it in those who preach Christ, and open to Him the door, that He may dwell by faith in the hearts of men.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…the length, and breadth, and height, and depth, even to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17–19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…understood to be spoken on account of the union with man, as also the statement that ‘all things were made by Christ,’ and that ‘Christ dwells in our hearts,’ must be understood not according to the sensible, but according to the intellectual conception of the Godhead, the terms being commingled together just as are…” — editor's note: Ephes. iii. 17
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“…are to be understood as said on account of the Union with the heavenly; just as that All Things were made by Christ, and that Christ dwelleth in your hearts is said, not of the visible nature which belongs to God, but of what is perceived by the mind, the names being mingled like the natures, and flowing into one…” — editor's note: Ephes. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment “…over that which is in His image, if it abides, to take it by the hand, if it is in danger, or restore it, if ruined, to make Christ to dwell in the heart by the Spirit: and, in short, to deify, and bestow heavenly bliss upon, one who belongs to the heavenly host.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
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John Cassian
“And again: “in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“…pure before God, that it may be found worthy to receive Christ as a guest within, saying “that in the inner man Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 16, 17.
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Tertullian
“Thus when, writing to the Ephesians, he spoke of “Christ dwelling in their inner man,” he meant, no doubt, that the Lord ought to be admitted into their senses.” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 17.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…“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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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Catechism §1073.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.29.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 13.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 13.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.29.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.7.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.4.
Cited together in Catechism §1073.