Theodore of Mopsuestia

In his own words on Ephesians

• Ephesians 2:10

  Here he is speaking not of the first but of the second creation, wherein we are re-created by the resurrection. Completely unable as we are to mend our ways by our own decision on account of the natural weakness that opposes us, we are made able to come newly alive without pain and with great ease by the grace of the One who re-creates us for this purpose.

  EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.10

• Ephesians 2:14

  Christ, conferring immortality on us through his resurrection, has put an end to this division [between Jew and Gentile], for there can be no circumcision of an immortal nature.

  CATENA 2.13