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Translated by Bl. Jackson.
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Page 9
9. In his Epistle to the Ephesians the apostle says, "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ; from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body." [752]
And again in the Epistle to the Colossians, to them that have not the knowledge of the Only Begotten, there is mention of him that holdeth "the head," that is, Christ, "from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered increaseth with the increase of God." [753] And that Christ is the head of the Church we have learned in another passage, when the apostle says "gave him to be the head over all things to the Church," [754] and "of his fulness have all we received." [755] And the Lord Himself says "He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." [756] In a word, the diligent reader will perceive that "of whom" is used in diverse manners. [757] For instance, the Lord says, "I perceive that virtue is gone out of me." [758] Similarly we have frequently observed "of whom" used of the Spirit. "He that soweth to the spirit," it is said, "shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." [759] John too writes, "Hereby we know that he abideth in us by (ek) the spirit which he hath given us." [760] "That which is conceived in her," says the angel, "is of the Holy Ghost," [761] and the Lord says "that which is born of the spirit is spirit." [762] Such then is the case so far.
[752] Eph. iv. 15, 16.
[753] Col. ii. 19.
[754] Eph. i. 22.
[755] John i. 16.
[756] 1 John xvi. 15.
[757] polutropoi. cf. the cognate adverb in Heb. i. 1.
[758] "ex emou " The reading in St. Luke (viii. 46) is ap' emou. In the parallel passage, Mark v. 30, the words are, "Jesus knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him," ex autou which D. inserts in Luke viii. 45.
[759] Gal. vi. 8.
[760] 1 John iii. 24.
[761] Matt. i. 20.
[762] John iii. 6.
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