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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 3:28

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Galatians 3:28 (WEB)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Catechism · 1

  • §791Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

    “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 3:27-28.

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Augustine of Hippo

Clement of Alexandria

Ambrose of Milan

  • “…we mortal men are, so far as regards our general nature, of one substance: if this is what the Scripture saith of created men, that, being many, they are one, who can in no way be compared to Divine Persons, how much more are the Father and the Son one in Divinity, with Whom there is no difference either of substance…” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 26; Gal. iii. 28.

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  • “For it is written: “Ye are all one in Christ Jesus,” and elsewhere: “To those sanctified in Christ Jesus,” and again: “That we might be the righteousness of God in Him,” and in another place: “Should fall from the chastity which is in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28.

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John Chrysostom

  • “…wall you off; since I hear from the elder ones, that of old there were not so much as these partitions; “For in Christ Jesus there is neither male nor female.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28. [The passage is inexactly cited, the form being altered to correspond with the previous part of the verse. Comp. R.V.—R.]

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Leo the Great

Jerome

  • “And since even in the flesh, if we are born again in Christ, we are no longer Greek and Barbarian, bond and free, male and female, but are all one in Him, how much more true will this be when this corruptible has put on incorruption and when this mortal has put on immortality.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28.

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Tertullian

  • “For you too, (women as you are,) have the self-same angelic nature promised as your reward, the self-same sex as men: the self-same advancement to the dignity of judging, does (the Lord) promise you.” — editor's note: See Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 25; Luke xx. 35, 36; and comp. Gal. iii. 28.

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  • “But indeed it is superfluous to dwell on what he has erased, when he may be more effectually confuted from that which he has retained.” — editor's note: So, instead of pursuing the contents of chap. iii., he proceeds to such of chap. iv. as Marcion reserved.

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Gregory of Nyssa

Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “…for us of God, Who for us was made man and became poor, to raise our flesh, and recover His image, and remodel man, that we might all be 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…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28.

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Aphrahat

Hippolytus of Rome

  • “For, says (the Naassene), Attis has been emasculated, that is, he has passed over from the earthly parts of the nether world to the everlasting substance above, where, he says, there is neither female or male, but a new creature, a new man, which is hermaphrodite.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 28, and Clement’s Epist. ad Rom., ii. 12. [This is the apocryphal Clement reserved for vol. viii. of this series. See also same text, Ignatius, vol.…

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