Anf-01 ix.vi.xxvi Pg 3
Eph. ii. 20.
is the chief corner-stone” sustaining all things); and He gathered into the one faith of Abraham those who, from either covenant, are eligible for God’s building. But this faith which is in uncircumcision, as connecting the end with the beginning, has been made [both] the first and the last. For, as I have shown, it existed in Abraham antecedently to circumcision, as it also did in the rest of the righteous who pleased God: and in these last times, it again sprang up among mankind through the coming of the Lord. But circumcision and the law of works occupied the intervening period.4143 4143
Anf-02 ii.iv.ix Pg 41.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xi Pg 51.1
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 54
Eph. ii. 17–20.
—(the apostle added), “and the prophets;” these words, however, the heretic erased, forgetting that the Lord had set in His Church not only apostles, but prophets also. He feared, no doubt, that our building was to stand in Christ upon the foundation of the ancient prophets,6000 6000 “Because, if our building as Christians rested in part upon that foundation, our God, and the God of the Jews must be the same, which Marcion denied” (Lardner).
since the apostle himself never fails to build us up everywhere with (the words of) the prophets. For whence did he learn to call Christ “the chief corner-stone,”6001 6001
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 15
Eph. ii. 20.
who, like “consecrated stones,” were rolled up and down exposed to the attack of all men. And therefore in this passage He forbids men “to meditate before what they answer” when brought before tribunals,5028 5028
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 56
Eph. ii. 20.
but from the figure given him in the Psalm: “The stone which the builders rejected is become the head (stone) of the corner?”6002 6002
Anf-03 iv.ix.xiii Pg 57
See Isa. iii. 1; 3; and comp. 1 Cor. iii. 10; Eph. ii. 20, 21; 1 Pet. ii. 4–8, and many similar passages.
who builds the church, God’s temple, and the holy city, and the house of the Lord. For thenceforth God’s grace desisted (from working) among them. And “the clouds were commanded not to rain a shower upon the vineyard of Sorek,”1434 1434
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (20) - Eph 4:12 1Pe 2:4,5
