St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition

by Charles Gore

[[10]] Vol. i. p. 317 (Longmans, 1895).

[[11]] 1 Thess. iv. 14.

[[12]] In Ps. lvi. i.

[[13]] It is one very noticeable feature of the recent Encyclical of Leo XIII on the Unity of the Church ('satis cognitum') that it assumes that 'only a despotic monarch can secure to any society unity and strength.'

[[14]] Romans x. 9.

[[15]] For example, see Gal. i. 6-9.

[[16]] Acts xv. 23-29.

[[17]] Romans xiv. 56; cf. Phil. iii. 15-16.

[[18]] Cf. Hort, Ecclesia, p. 169, who brings out that all members of the local churches, better and worse, are regarded as members of the universal Church. 'There is no evidence that St. Paul regarded membership of the universal Church as invisible and exclusively spiritual, and shared by only a limited number of the members of the external Ecclesiae.' See also app. note E, p. 267.

[[19]] 1 Cor. xii. 13.