Ephesians 4:5 (WEB)
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Catechism · 4
We Believe
“Through the centuries, in so many languages, cultures, peoples and nations, the Church has constantly confessed this one faith, received from the one Lord, transmitted by one Baptism, and grounded in the conviction that all people have only one God and Father.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 4:4-6
The Father
“Such formulations are already found in the apostolic writings, such as this salutation taken up in the Eucharistic liturgy: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 13:14; cf. I Cor 12:4 - 6; Eph 4:4-6.
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
“United with the only Son, who has become "the firstborn among many brethren," she is in communion with one and the same Father in one and the same Holy Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:29; Cf. Eph 4:4-6.
The Communion of Saints
“Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself"” — Catechism footnote: LG 50; cf. Eph 4:1-6.
Fathers and councils · 21
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…and the Apostle Paul [says] in like manner, “There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father, who is above all, and through all, and in us all”—this man will first of all “hold the head, from which the whole body is compacted and bound together, and, through means of every joint according to the…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5, 6.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“We may not receive Baptism twice or thrice; else it might be said, Though I have failed once, I shall set it right a second time: whereas if thou fail once, the thing cannot be set right; for there is one Lord, and one faith, and one baptism: for only the heretics are re-baptized, because the former was no baptism.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan
““One faith,” he says, “one baptism.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore, then, does Auxentius hold that the faithful ought to be rebaptized, when they have been baptized in the name of the Trinity, when the Apostle says: “One faith, one baptism”?” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5, 6.
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Leo the Great
“…have condemned, any one is forced twice to enter the font, which is but once available for those who are to be reborn, in opposition to the Apostle’s teaching, which speaks to us of One Godhead in Trinity, one confession in Faith, one sacrament in Baptism.” — editor's note: Viz. Eph. iv. 5. It will be remembered that the practice of rebaptism was very definitely condemned in the times of S. Cyprian (3rd cent.), who himself went…
Read the whole comment“A mighty bulwark is a sound faith, a true faith, to which nothing has to be added or taken away: because unless it is one, it is no faith, as the Apostle says, “one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5, 6.
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Basil the Great
“If indeed we are to subscribe one creed to-day and another tomorrow, and shift with the seasons, then is the declaration false of him who said, “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5.
Read the whole comment“On this account we do not, as is the fashion of the Jews, wash ourselves at each defilement, but own the baptism of salvation to be one.” — editor's note: cf. Eph. iv. 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…divide our one Lord Jesus Christ into two persons or two sons or two Lords, for we have heard the very divine Paul saying “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” and again “One Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things” and again “Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day and for ever” and in another place—“He that…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5
Read the whole comment“They ought to listen to those words of the Apostle which openly declare “one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things,” and again “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.”” — editor's note: Ephes. iv. 5
Read the whole comment“And who is so distraught as, while hearing the words of the divine Paul “one Lord, one faith, one baptism,” and again “there is one Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things,” to lay down the law at variance with the teaching of the Spirit, and cut the one in two.” — editor's note: Ephes. iv. 5
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Tertullian
“For if they had undergone the human baptism of John, and were longing for that of the Lord, then since the Lord Himself had defined baptism to be one; (saying to Peter, who was desirous of being thoroughly bathed, “He who hath once bathed hath no necessity to wash a second time;” which, of course, He would…” — editor's note: See Eph. iv. 5.
Read the whole comment“There is to us one, and but one, baptism; as well according to the Lord’s gospel as according to the apostle’s letters, inasmuch as he says, “One God, and one baptism, and one church in the heavens.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 4, 5, 6, but very inexactly quoted.
Read the whole comment“There is “one God, one faith,” one discipline too.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“They and we have one faith, one God, the same Christ, the same hope, the same baptismal sacraments; let me say it once for all, we are one Church.” — editor's note: Comp. Eph. iv. 1–6.
Read the whole comment“We have the apostle in another passage defining “but one baptism.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“It is therefore more easily said that the souls were many,—a several soul, of course, for each several person—of whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles, that they were of one soul,—than it is, where the apostle speaks of “one faith,” for any one to venture to say that there are as many faiths as there are faithful.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 5
Read the whole comment““One Lord,” where he certainly meant Christ to be understood; but it remained that he should also name the Father: and accordingly there follows, “One faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 4–6.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“One undoubtedly, and that on the authority of the Apostle himself, who proclaims one faith even as one Lord, and one baptism, and one hope, and one God.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment“…the following: As ye also were called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, and through all, and in us all.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 4–6.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Letters Letter 226.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Letters Letter 226.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in Catechism §2790.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 226.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Catechism §2790.
Cited together in Letters Letter 84.
Cited together in Letters Letter 226.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 2.
Cited together in Catechism §2790 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2.
Cited together in Catechism §2790.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §249.
Cited together in Catechism §249.
Cited together in Catechism §249.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83.
Cited together in Catechism §249.