Tuesday, May 17, 2022

McConville and Brady on corporate election in Ephesians 1

  

God’s plan—The Church was long prepared for. In the Epistle to the Ephesians (1:9-10), St. Paul presents her as the fulfilment of a loving plan drawn up by God beforehand, to be brought to completion when the time came. Christians, that is to say those who have believed the love God has for us (1 John 4:16), recognize this plan. For God is love (1 John 4:8). (The Church of Christ, ed. Peter McConville and Peter Brady [Young Christians Today 4; London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967], 4)