# Exposition on Ephesians - Author: [Pelagius](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/pelagius/) - Latin title: *Expositio in epistulam ad Ephesios* - Date: ca. 405–410 (approximate) - Source: Alexander Souter, ed., Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul, vol. 2: Text and Apparatus Criticus, Texts and Studies 9.2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926) (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract) - Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator - Editions and translations: Alexander Souter, Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul, 3 vols., Texts and Studies 9 (Cambridge, 1922–1931) - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/ - Passages: 148 ## Argumentum (prefatory note) - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-0 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:344 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Pelagius's argument: Paul writes to believing Jews and Gentiles at Ephesus, first on the incarnation, then on gratitude, then on conduct. ### Latin text Ephesii ex Iudaeis et genti[li]bus Paulo apostolo praedicante crediderunt, quibus firmiter stantibus scribit, et in principio quidem epistulae Iudaeos appellans, incamationis Christi sacramenta exponit, post ad gentes conuersus [ex]hortatur ut tantis beneficiis non si[n]t ingrati, deinde communiter usque ad finem moralia praecipit instituta. ### English translation (Claude) The Ephesians believed, from among the Jews and the Gentiles, when the apostle Paul preached. Because they were standing firm, he writes to them; at the beginning of the letter he addresses the Jews and sets out the mysteries of Christ's incarnation; then he turns to the Gentiles and exhorts them not to be ungrateful for such great benefits; then, addressing all in common, he lays down moral instructions to the end. ### Translation notes - Souter's square brackets around letters (genti[li]bus, [ex]hortatur, si[n]t) mark readings he does not take as Pelagius's; they do not change the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. pref. (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:344; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0). ## Ephesians 1:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:344–345 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul writes as apostle by God's will, not his own merit, to the baptized saints who believe. ### Latin text Paulus apostolus Christi Iesu per uoluntatem dei. Non meis meritis. Sanctis et fidelibus. Omnes sancti fideles, [non omnes fideles sancti, quia possunt etiam catechumini,] ex eo quo[d] Christo credunt, fideles dici, non tamen sancti sunt, quia non sunt per baptismum sanctificati. Siue : Sic intellegendum quod scribat fideliter seruantibus gratiam sanctitatis. Qui sunt Ephesi in Iesu Christo . Non omnibus Ephesiis, sed his qui credunt in Christo. ### English translation (Claude) "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God." Not by my merits. "To the saints and faithful." All saints are faithful, ... from the fact that they believe in Christ, can be called faithful and yet are not saints, because they have not been sanctified through baptism. Or: it is to be understood that he writes to those who faithfully keep the grace of holiness. "Who are at Ephesus in Christ Jesus." Not to all the Ephesians, but to those who believe in Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the words "not all the faithful are saints, because even catechumens can" as not Pelagius's; they are left out, and without them the sentence lacks its subject (the sense is that catechumens believe but are not yet sanctified by baptism). - Leaked apparatus and an OCR fragment of the manuscripts' heading were removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:344–345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-1). ## Ephesians 1:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Grace avails for those who do not credit their salvation to their merits; Father and Son act as one. ### Latin text Gratia uobis et pax. Tunc uobis ualebit gratia, si ei non sitis ingrati, salutem uestram [non] uestris meritis deputantes: pacem uero reconciliationis seruabimus, si nihil eius bonitati uel iustitiae deinceps contrarium faciamus. A deo patre nostro et domino Iesu Christo. Unum esse pater et filius demonstra[n]tur, utrique pariter operantes. ### English translation (Claude) "Grace to you and peace." Grace will avail for you then, if you are not ungrateful to it by ascribing your salvation to your own merits; and we shall keep the peace of reconciliation if from now on we do nothing contrary to his goodness or righteousness. "From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." The Father and the Son are shown to be one, since both work alike. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "not" before "ascribing your salvation to your own merits" (the bracketed reading gives "not ascribing ..."); it is left out here, and the participle is taken as describing the ingratitude. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-2). ## Ephesians 1:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God has given every spiritual blessing in Christ, so we owe him full obedience in return. ### Latin text Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi. Laudat deum eo quod donauerit infra scripta. Qui benedixit nos in omni benedictione spiritali. Non in aliquantis, sed in omnibus spiritalibus gratiae benedictionibus, ut, quo modo nobis nihil de-est ex illo, ita uoluntati eius nihil de-sit ex nobis. In cae lestibus. Non [in] camali prosperitate nec [in] terrena abundantia. In Christo . In capite omnia membra benedixit. ### English translation (Claude) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." He praises God for having given the things written below. "Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing." Not in some, but in all the spiritual blessings of grace, so that, just as nothing is lacking to us from him, so nothing may be lacking to his will from us. "In the heavenly places." Not in fleshly prosperity or earthly abundance. "In Christ." In the head he blessed all the members. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in" twice ("[in] fleshly prosperity", "[in] earthly abundance"); omitted, without change of sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-3). ## Ephesians 1:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345–346 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's choosing and predestining is his foreknowledge and purpose that all who will believe become his adopted sons, not a matter of merit or pre-existent souls. ### Latin text Sicut elegit nos in ipso ante constitutionem mundi , ut essemus sancti et inreprehensibiles. Quia deo nihil est nouum, apud quem omnia erant ante quam fierent, non ut quidam heretici somniant, animas antea in caelo fuisse segregatas. In con spectu eius. Non hominum. In caritate. Per caritatem hoc fecit. Siue: Inmaculatos diligit deus. Qui praedestinauit nos in adoptionem. Non naturae. Filiorum , Hoc praedestinauit, ut habere[n]t potestatem filius dei fieri omnis qui credere uoluisae[n]t, sicut scriptum est: ‘loquebantur uerbum dei cum fiducia omni uolenti credere/ Per [Iesum] Christum in ipsum. Ut membra eius simus. Secundum pro positum uoluntatis suae . Non secundum merita nostra. ### English translation (Claude) "Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless." Because nothing is new to God, with whom all things existed before they came to be; not, as certain heretics dream, that souls were previously set apart in heaven. "In his sight." Not that of men. "In love." He did this through love. Or: God loves the spotless. "Who predestined us to adoption." Not of nature. "As sons." He predestined this: that all who were willing to believe should have the power to become sons of God, as it is written: "they spoke the word of God with all boldness" to everyone willing to believe. "Through Christ into himself." So that we may be his members. "According to the purpose of his will." Not according to our merits. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:4: quotation, high confidence - Eph 1:5: quotation, high confidence - John 1:12: allusion, medium confidence - Acts 4:31: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 1:5. The "heretics" are those who held that souls pre-existed in heaven (an Origenist view). The quotation is Acts 4:31 with Pelagius's words "to everyone willing to believe" added. Souter brackets "Jesus" in "through [Jesus] Christ"; omitted. Pelagius's account of predestination is translated as written. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:345–346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-4). ## Ephesians 1:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's grace in Christ made us pleasing to him, so that we praise it. ### Latin text In laudem gloriae gratiae suae . Ut laudemus gloriam gratiae eius. In qua gratificauit nos in dilecto suo jUio . In qua gratia gratos nos fecit sibi in Christo. ### English translation (Claude) "To the praise of the glory of his grace." That we may praise the glory of his grace. "In which he has graced us in his beloved Son." In which grace he made us pleasing to himself in Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:6: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-6). ## Ephesians 1:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ's blood redeemed us and his forgiveness made us righteous without our labour. ### Latin text In quo habemus redemptionem per sanguinem ipsius, remissionempeccatorum . Non solum redemit, sed etiam peccata remittens sine nostro labore iustos nos fecit, Secundum diuitias [daritatis] gratiae eius , ### English translation (Claude) "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins." Not only did he redeem us, but by forgiving our sins without labour of ours he made us righteous. "According to the riches of his grace," ### Scripture references - Eph 1:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "of glory" ([claritatis]) in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-7). ## Ephesians 1:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 1:8. ### Latin text quae superabundant in nobis in omni [gratia] sapientia [et prudentia], ### English translation (Claude) "which abounded toward us in all wisdom," ### Scripture references - Eph 1:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "grace" and "and prudence" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-8). ## Ephesians 1:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's abundance gave not only forgiveness but knowledge of the mysteries of his will. ### Latin text [ut] notum facere[t] [nobis] mysterium uoluntatis suae , secundum bonum placitum [eius\ quod pro\po]suit in eo. Plus quam abundauit, ut non solum a morte redemptis gratis peccata dimitteret, sed etiam tantam nobis sapientiam donaret, ut uoluntatis eius occulta mysteria nosceremus. ### English translation (Claude) "to make known the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in him." He abounded more than enough: not only did he freely forgive the sins of those redeemed from death, but he also gave us such wisdom that we should know the hidden mysteries of his will. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "that", "to us", "his" and part of the following words in the lemma; the bracketed words are left out without change of sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-9). ## Ephesians 1:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346–347 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ restores heaven's joy and fallen humanity; the Jewish believers were called first, by God's reasonable will and not their merits. ### Latin text In dispen sationem plenitudinis temporum. In nouissimis temporibus, quando iam omnia dispensatio temporum legis et naturae prophetarumque transacta sunt. Restaurare omnia in Christo , quae in cadis [sunt] et quae in terra [sunt] in ipso . Multi super hac re diuersa dixerunt: nam quidam aiunt caelos animas terram corpora accipienda, alii caelos Iudaeos, qui caelestia praecepta habuerant, terram esse gentiles adfirmant, alii uero adserunt in caelis non angelos restauratos, sed eorum scientiam [ex] Christi tempore profecisse, qui tamquam ignari interrogabant quis esset iste rex gloriae, et docentur dominum eum esse uirtutum. sed quoniam restaurari non dicitur nisi lapsum, melius est si eorum gaudium in salute hominum restauratum esse dicamus, quod habuerant ante quam homines a iustitia penitus declinarent: in terra uero restauratum esse genus hominum per Christum nullus ignorat. In quo etiam [wos] uocati sumus. Nos, qui ex Iudaeis credi[di]mus [in] Christo. Praedestinati. Ante destinati per fidem. Siue: Praecogniti. Secundum propositum dei. Quo proposuit quidem omnia restaurare, sed primo oues perditas domus Istrahel. Qui omnia operatur. Omnium horum causa uoluntas est dei, quam rationabilem esse non dubium est. Secundum consilium uoluntatis suae. Non secundum merita nostra. ### English translation (Claude) "For the dispensation of the fullness of times." In the last times, when the whole dispensation of the times of the law, of nature, and of the prophets had now been completed. "To restore all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him." Many have said different things on this matter: some say that the heavens should be taken as souls and the earth as bodies; others affirm that the heavens are the Jews, who had heavenly commands, and the earth the Gentiles; others again assert that in the heavens it is not the angels who were restored, but that their knowledge advanced from the time of Christ, for as if ignorant they asked who this king of glory was, and they are taught that he is the Lord of hosts. But since nothing is said to be restored unless it has fallen, it is better if we say that their joy was restored in the salvation of human beings, the joy they had had before human beings wholly turned aside from righteousness; and that on earth the human race was restored through Christ, no one is unaware. "In whom we too have been called." We who from the Jews believed in Christ. "Predestined." Destined beforehand through faith. Or: foreknown. "According to the purpose of God." By which he purposed to restore all things, but first the lost sheep of the house of Israel. "Who works all things." The cause of all these things is the will of God, which there is no doubt is reasonable. "According to the counsel of his will." Not according to our merits. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:10: quotation, high confidence - Eph 1:11: quotation, high confidence - Ps 24:10 (23:10 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Matt 15:24: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 1:11. "Who this king of glory is ... Lord of hosts": Ps 24:8–10 (23:8–10 LXX). "The lost sheep of the house of Israel": Matt 15:24. Souter brackets "are" twice in the lemma, "from" (Christ's time), and "in" (Christ); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:346–347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-10). ## Ephesians 1:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:347–348 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Jewish believers, who first hoped in Christ, are to show God's glory by their lives. ### Latin text TJt simus in laudem gloriae eius . Ut per conuersationem nostram, siue per signa quae facimus, laudetur gloria dei. Nos qui ante sperauimus in Christo. Nos apostoli uel Iudaei, qui priores credi[di]mus [in] Christo. Siue: Ex lege expectauimus Christum. ### English translation (Claude) "That we may be to the praise of his glory." That the glory of God may be praised through our way of life, or through the signs that we perform. "We who first hoped in Christ." We apostles or Jews, who believed in Christ first. Or: from the law we awaited Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in" before "Christ"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:347–348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-12). ## Ephesians 1:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Gentiles too heard the gospel, believed, and were sealed with the promised Spirit. ### Latin text In quo et uos [, carissimi ], audito uerbo ueritatis, euangelio salutis uestrae . In quo etiam [et] uobis gentibus adnuntiata est salus. In quo [et] credentes. In [quo] euangelio. Siue: Christo. Signati estis spiritu promissionis sancto , ### English translation (Claude) "In whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation." In whom salvation was announced also to you Gentiles. "In whom, believing." In which gospel. Or: in Christ. "You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise," ### Scripture references - Eph 1:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "dearly beloved" in the lemma, and "and" and "which" in the comment; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-13). ## Ephesians 1:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Spirit's present gifts are a down payment on the inheritance promised to all flesh. ### Latin text qui est pignus hereditatis nostrae. Hin[c] cognoscemini unum esse, qui[a] eundem spiritum accepistis, cuius signa arra sunt hereditatis futurae. si ergo mortuos suscitare arra est, quanta erit ipsa possessio! pignus uero promises fidem operatur [spiritu promissionis], qui omni carni promissus est per Iohel. In redemptionem adquisitionis , in laudem gloriae ipsius. Quos redimendo suo sanguine adquaesiuit, ut etiam in hoc laudemus gloriam eius. ### English translation (Claude) "who is the pledge of our inheritance." By this you will know that you are one, because you have received the same Spirit, whose signs are the earnest of the future inheritance. If, then, to raise the dead is an earnest, how great will the possession itself be! A pledge produces faith in what is promised; the Spirit was promised to all flesh through Joel. "Unto the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory." Those whom he acquired by redeeming them with his blood, so that in this too we may praise his glory. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:14: quotation, high confidence - Joel 2:28: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The promise to all flesh: Joel 2:28. Souter brackets the words "by the Spirit of promise"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-14). ## Ephesians 1:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Ephesians' faith is proved by their love for all the saints, though with discernment. ### Latin text Propterea et ego , audiens fidem uestram quae est in domino Iesu. Quam firmiter teneatis fidem Iesu. Et omnes sanctos . [Et omnes bonos] sine exceptione personae uel notitiae diligatis : cauere enim a pseudo-prophetis [et] non omni 8piritui credere [e]t non ante probationem [nobis] iudicare praecipitur. [Et dilectionem in omnes sanctos .] Hoc est fidem operibus conprobare. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith which is in the Lord Jesus." How firmly you hold the faith of Jesus. "And toward all the saints." That you love them without respect of person or of acquaintance; for we are commanded to beware of false prophets, not to believe every spirit, and not to judge before testing. This is to prove faith by works. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:15: quotation, high confidence - Matt 7:15: allusion, medium confidence - 1 John 4:1: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and all good people", "to us", and the repeated lemma "and love toward all the saints"; omitted. "Beware of false prophets": Matt 7:15; "not every spirit": 1 John 4:1. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-15). ## Ephesians 1:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348–349 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul remembers the Ephesians in prayer, his chief delight. ### Latin text Non cesso gratias agens pro uobis } memoriam uestri fadens in orationibus meis. Non, ut quidam, in iucunditate conuiuii: mihi autem nihil oratione aucundius. ### English translation (Claude) "I do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers." Not, as some do, in the merriment of a banquet; but to me nothing is more pleasant than prayer. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:16: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:348–349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-16). ## Ephesians 1:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:349 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul asks for wisdom so that believers may truly know God's power and omnipresence, which keeps them from sin. ### Latin text Ut deus domini nostri Iesu Christi, pater gloriae. [Deus pater gloriae domini nostri Iesu Christi]. Det uobis spiritum sapientiae et reuelationis. Notandum quia fidem et caritatem habentibus sapentiam a domino deprecatur: nouerat enim earn matrem omnium esse uirtutum. In agnitione eius. Quo modo optat ut agnosca[n]t deum, quern usque adeo nouerant, ut ei credentes omnes propter ipsum diligerent sanctos? sed hoc petit ut perfecte cognoscant magnitudinem eius atque uirtutem; [uirtutem] qu[i]a potest promissa praemia uel poenas implere, magnitudine[m], qu[i]a, cum ubique sit, nihil eum potest omnino latere: qui enim hoc pro certo cognouerit, nullo potent in loco peccare; nam qui humanum testimonium erubescit, multo magis diuinum potent reuereri. unde filii Heli, cum sacerdotes essent, deum nescisse dicuntur, quia praesentiam et potentiam eius minime timuerunt, et Iohannes apostolus omnem qui peccat deum non cognouisse confirmat. ### English translation (Claude) "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory," "may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation." Note that for those who have faith and love he asks wisdom from the Lord: for he knew it to be the mother of all virtues. "In the knowledge of him." How does he wish them to know God, whom they already knew so well that, believing in him, they loved all the saints for his sake? But he asks this: that they may know perfectly his greatness and power; his power, because he is able to fulfil the promised rewards or punishments; his greatness, because, since he is everywhere, nothing at all can escape him. For whoever has known this for certain will be able to sin in no place; since one who is ashamed before a human witness will much more be able to revere the divine. Hence the sons of Eli, though they were priests, are said not to have known God, because they had no fear at all of his presence and power; and John the apostle affirms that everyone who sins has not known God. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:17: quotation, high confidence - 1 Sam 2:12: allusion, high confidence - 1 John 3:6: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets an alternative form of the lemma ("God the Father of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ"); omitted. The sons of Eli: 1 Sam 2:12. John: 1 John 3:6. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-17). ## Ephesians 1:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:349–350 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowing the hope of God's calling makes every earthly hope and inheritance seem worthless. ### Latin text Inluminatis oculis cordis uestri. Spiritalia promissa non nisi spiritalibus oculis peruidentur. Ut sciatis quae sit spes uocationis eius , quae diuitiae gloriae hereditatis eius in sanctis. Si scieritis ad quantam spem uocati estis, omnem spem saeculi facile contemnetis; et si diuitias hereditatis dei uideritis, omnis terrena uobis sordebit hereditas: nemo enim, regnum cum opibus suis sperans, curator esse et mediocrem substantiam possidere dignatur. ### English translation (Claude) "The eyes of your heart being enlightened." Spiritual promises are perceived only by spiritual eyes. "That you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." If you know to what great hope you have been called, you will easily despise every hope of this age; and if you see the riches of God's inheritance, every earthly inheritance will be worthless to you: for no one who hopes for a kingdom with its wealth deigns to be a steward and to possess a modest property. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:18: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:349–350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-18). ## Ephesians 1:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 1:19. ### Latin text Et quae sit supereminens magnitudo uirtutis eius in uobis qui credidistis , secundum operationem potentiae uirtutis eius , ### English translation (Claude) "And what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward you who have believed, according to the working of the might of his power," ### Scripture references - Eph 1:19: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-19). ## Ephesians 1:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's greatest work was raising Christ and seating him in honour; "right hand" means honour, not a bodily God. ### Latin text quam operatus est in Christo , suscitans ilium a mortuis. Omnem magnitudinem uirtutum dei in natura uel lege supereminet, quod praestitit Christianis, ut filio suo non parceret, et eum [cjaput nostrum factum ad suam dexteram in caelestibus collocaret. Et constituens ad dexteram suam in caelestibus . Hie dextera pro honore ponitur, non ut deus corporeus esse credatur: nam et pater a dextris esse scribitur Christi: ‘dominus,’ inquit, ‘a dextris tuis confringet in die irae suae reges.’ ambo ergo a dextris sunt, quia nihil est in diuinitate sinistrum. ### English translation (Claude) "which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead." What he granted to Christians surpasses all the greatness of God's mighty works in nature or the law: that he did not spare his own Son, and that he set him, who has become our head, at his right hand in the heavenly places. "And setting him at his right hand in the heavenly places." Here "right hand" is put for honour, not so that God may be believed to be bodily: for the Father too is written to be at the right hand of Christ: "The Lord," it says, "at your right hand will shatter kings in the day of his wrath." Both, then, are at the right hand, because in the Godhead nothing is on the left. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:20: quotation, high confidence - Ps 110:5 (109:5 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Rom 8:32: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "The Lord at your right hand": Ps 110:5 (109:5 LXX). "Did not spare his own Son": Rom 8:32. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-20). ## Ephesians 1:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The risen Christ, the assumed man now one with God, is above every power. ### Latin text Supra omnem potestatem et principatum et uirtutem et dominationem. Quia unum est iam cum deo adsumptus homo, qui suscitatus est. Et omne nomen quod nominatur non solum in hoc saeculo , sed [etiam\ in futuro. Si quod est aliut. ### English translation (Claude) "Above every power and principality and might and dominion." Because the man who was assumed and who was raised is now one with God. "And every name that is named, not only in this age, but in the age to come." If there is any other. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "also" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-21). ## Ephesians 1:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 1:22. ### Latin text Et omnia subiecit sub pedibus eius , et ipsum dedit caput supra omnia [membra'] ecclesiae , ### English translation (Claude) "And he has put all things under his feet, and has given him as head over all things to the church," ### Scripture references - Eph 1:22: quotation, high confidence - Ps 8:6: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "members" in the lemma ("over all the members of the church"); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-22). ## Ephesians 1:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-1-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350–351 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church is Christ's body, which will be complete when all the members have believed. ### Latin text quae est corpus eius et plenitudo eius. Ecclesia omnium plenitudo membrorum. Qui omnia in omnibus adimpletur. Quando omnes crediderint, tunc erit corpus eius perfectum in omnibus membris: totus enim in membris omnibus, non in singulis, adimpletur, ne nulla sit diuersitas [meritorum]. ### English translation (Claude) "which is his body and his fullness." The church is the fullness of all the members. "Who is filled all in all." When all have believed, then his body will be complete in all its members: for he is filled as a whole in all the members, not in each one singly, lest there be no diversity. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "of merits" after "diversity"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 1.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:350–351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/1-23). ## Ephesians 2:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul recalls the believers' former death in sin to spur them to obedience. ### Latin text Et uos, cum esseiis mortui delictis et peccatis uestris. Incipit collata beneficia replicare, ut ad officium mandatorum ex contemplatione donatae indulgentiae auidius concitentur: mortui enim erant peccatis facientibus, sicut Adam et uidua in deliciis uiuens.’ ### English translation (Claude) "And you, when you were dead in your trespasses and sins." He begins to recount the benefits conferred, so that from the contemplation of the pardon given they may be more eagerly roused to the duty of the commandments: for they were dead because of their sins, as Adam was, and "the widow living in pleasures." ### Scripture references - Eph 2:1: quotation, high confidence - 1 Tim 5:6: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The words "as Adam and the widow living in pleasures" are compressed in the text; the quotation is 1 Tim 5:6 ("is dead while she lives"). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-1). ## Ephesians 2:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The devil works on unbelievers by persuasion, not force. ### Latin text In quibus aliquando ambu lastis. Notandum quod in peccatis ambulasse, non ‘ambulare,’ illos dixerit. Secundum saeculum mundi huius. Saeculi hominibus similes, sequentes diaboli uolimtatem. Secundum principem po[s]testatis aeris huius spiritus. Secundum principem illius potestatis, quae in hoc aere [uentoso est. multi sane opinantur quod diabolus in hoc aere] satellitibus suis ad decipiendos diuersis peccatis homines diuiserit potestatem. Qui nunc operatur. [Operatur] suasione, no[n] u[i]. In filios diffidentiae. In eos qui non credunt: illi autem qui desperant atque diffidunt de promissione dei, dicuntur filii diffidentiae, sicut fihi irae et gehennae et mortis. ### English translation (Claude) "In which you once walked." Note that he said they had walked in sins, not that they "walk." "According to the age of this world." Like the men of the age, following the devil's will. "According to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit." According to the prince of that power which is in this air. "Who now works." He works by persuasion, not by force. "In the sons of unbelief." In those who do not believe; and those who despair and distrust God's promise are called sons of unbelief, as also sons of wrath, of Gehenna, and of death. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a passage ("windy; many indeed think that the devil, in this air,") and "works"; with these left out the sentence breaks off, and its remaining words say that the devil, with his attendants, has divided the power of deceiving people by various sins. "By persuasion, not by force" is translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-2). ## Ephesians 2:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351–352 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Jews and Gentiles alike lived in sin; "by nature" means that inherited custom made all seem born to condemnation. ### Latin text In quibus et nos omnes conuersati sumus aliquando . Non solum uos gentes non cre- dendo, sed [et] nos Iudaei peccando. In desideriis carnis nostrae, facientes uoluntatem carnis et cogitationum. Quando mens nostra rebus terrenis et carnalibus inbaerebat, non solum desiderans, sed et faciens quaecumque mala cogitatio suggessisset. Et eramus natura jUii irae , sicut et ceteri. Ita nos patemae traditionis consuetudo possederat, ut omnes ad damnationem nasci uideremur. ### English translation (Claude) "Among whom we all also once lived." Not only you Gentiles by not believing, but we Jews by sinning. "In the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts." When our mind clung to earthly and fleshly things, not only desiring but also doing whatever an evil thought suggested. "And we were by nature children of wrath, even as the others." The custom of our ancestral tradition had so taken hold of us that we all seemed to be born for condemnation. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius explains "by nature" (natura) as the force of inherited custom (consuetudo), so that all "seemed" born for condemnation; translated exactly. Souter brackets "also" ([et]); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:351–352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-3). ## Ephesians 2:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's great love shows in loving rebels as sons, and he loves the saints still more. ### Latin text Deus autem qui dines est in misericordia. ‘Misereris omnium, quoniam omnia potes, et diligis omnia quae creasti : nec enim odiens aliquid constituisses.’ Propter nimiam caritatem suam misertus est nostri. Nimia caritas est rebelles seruos quasi filios diligere. unde considerandum est quantum diligat [iam] sanctos effectos, qui tantum dignatus est diligere peccatores. ### English translation (Claude) "But God, who is rich in mercy." "You have mercy on all, because you can do all things, and you love all the things you have created; for you would not have made anything if you hated it." "Because of his great love he had mercy on us." It is great love to love rebellious slaves as sons. Hence one must consider how much he loves those who have become saints, when he deigned to love sinners so much. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:4: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Wis 11:23-24 (Wisdom of Solomon): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Wis 11:23–24 (11:24–25 in some numberings). Souter brackets "now" before "become saints"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-4). ## Ephesians 2:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Through baptism God made us sinless with Christ, by grace, apart from our merit. ### Latin text Et cum essemus mortui peccatis. [Rei mortis, iam quasi mortui uiuebamus.] Conuiuijicauit nos Christo. Sine peccato, sicut Christus est, per baptismum faciendo. Cuius gratia estis salu[i f]a[c]ti [per Jidem]. Propter ipsum. Siue : Qui pro uobis gratis [in Christo], nulloiustitiae uestro merito intercedente. est mortuus, uel cum ipse reus non esset. ### English translation (Claude) "And when we were dead in sins," "he made us alive together with Christ." By making us without sin through baptism, as Christ is. "By whose grace you have been saved." Because of him. Or: who freely died for you, with no merit of your righteousness intervening, or though he himself was not guilty. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the sentence "Liable to death, we were living as if already dead" and, in the lemma and comment, "through faith" and "in Christ"; omitted. The final words are in disorder in the text and are translated by sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-5). ## Ephesians 2:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352–353 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Our nature, in Christ our head, already sits in heaven, so we may hope with confidence. ### Latin text Et simul suscitauit simulque fecit sedere in caelestibus in Christo [Iesu], Non possumus desperare quod nostra natura iam possidet, quia ubi caput eat, ibi erit et corpus, sicut ipse ait: ‘uolo ut ubi ego sum, et isti sint raccum.’ ### English translation (Claude) "And raised us up with him and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ." We cannot despair of what our nature already possesses, because where the head is, there the body also will be, as he himself says: "I will that where I am, these also may be with me." ### Scripture references - Eph 2:6: quotation, high confidence - John 17:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Jesus" in the lemma; omitted. The quotation is John 17:24. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:352–353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-6). ## Ephesians 2:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's abundant grace both forgives and exalts believers with Christ. ### Latin text Ut ostenderet in saeculis superuenientibus. Ante praedestinauit quod erat his temporibus completurus. Abwidantes diuitias gratiae suae . Uere abundans gratia, quae non solum peccata donauit, sed etiam cum Christo resuscitatos in dextera dei in caelestibus collocauit. In bonitate super nos in Christo [Iesu]. In exemplo uel corpore Christi. ### English translation (Claude) "That he might show in the ages to come." He predestined beforehand what he was going to accomplish in these times. "The abounding riches of his grace." Truly abounding grace, which not only forgave sins but also set those raised with Christ at God's right hand in the heavenly places. "In kindness toward us in Christ." In the example or the body of Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Jesus" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-7). ## Ephesians 2:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Salvation comes not by merits of one's former life but by faith alone, as God's gift. ### Latin text Gratia enim estis salu[if]a[c]ti per fidem, et hoc non ex uobis . Non meritis prioris uitae, sed sola fide, sed tamen non sine fide. Sed dei donum est , ### English translation (Claude) "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves." Not by the merits of your former life, but by faith alone; and yet not without faith. "But it is the gift of God," ### Scripture references - Eph 2:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - "By faith alone" (sola fide) is Pelagius's phrase; the following words "and yet not without faith" are as printed and their point is unclear (perhaps "not without your own act"). Translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-8). ## Ephesians 2:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: No one should boast that baptism's gift was earned. ### Latin text non ex operibus, [ut] ne quis glorietur . Se suis meritis aliquit in baptismo accepisse. ### English translation (Claude) "not of works, lest anyone should boast" that he received anything in baptism by his own merits. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "that" ([ut]) in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-9). ## Ephesians 2:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Reborn in Christ, believers are to walk in the good works the gospel shows. ### Latin text Ipsius enim sumus factura , creati in Christo [Iesu] in operibus bonis , quae praeparauit deus ut in illis ambulemus. Qu[i]a nuper sumus in Christo renati, ut in bonis operibus ambulemus, quae in euangelio sunt ostensa. ### English translation (Claude) "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ in good works, which God prepared that we should walk in them." Because we have recently been reborn in Christ, so that we may walk in the good works shown in the gospel. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Jesus" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-10). ## Ephesians 2:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353–354 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul reminds the Gentiles of their former lowliness so that they will be grateful. ### Latin text Propter quod memores estote [gentes] quia aliquando [uos gentes] eratis in carne. Commemorat illos de quanta ignobilitate ad summam regni perducti sint dignitatem, ut non sint ingrati beneficiis largitoris. Qui dicebamini praeputium ab ea quae didtur circumcisio. Gentes praeputium, Iudaei circumcisio dicebantur. In came manu facta. Manu humana in carne, non spiritu dei in corde. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore remember that once you were in the flesh." He reminds them from what great obscurity they have been brought to the height of royal dignity, so that they may not be ungrateful for the benefits of the giver. "You who were called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision." The Gentiles were called uncircumcision, the Jews circumcision. "In the flesh, made by hands." By a human hand in the flesh, not by the Spirit of God in the heart. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Gentiles" and "you Gentiles" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:353–354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-11). ## Ephesians 2:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Gentiles were once without Christ, outside Israel's covenants, and without the true God. ### Latin text Quia eratis ilb tempore sine Christo. Nescientes Christum, idola insensibilia colebatis. Alienati a conuersatione Istrahel. Qui tunc erat populus dei. Et hospites testamentorum [eius], Etiam si crederetis, proseliti, hoc est, aduenae habebamini. Promissionis spem non hdbentes. Quam deus promiserat Abrahae, illi soli sperare uidebantur. Et sine deo in hoc mundo. Multos enim falsos deos sequentes, unum amiserant uerum. ### English translation (Claude) "Because you were at that time without Christ." Not knowing Christ, you worshipped senseless idols. "Alienated from the commonwealth of Israel." Which was then the people of God. "And strangers to the covenants." Even if you believed, you were considered proselytes, that is, newcomers. "Having no hope of the promise." Which God had promised to Abraham; they alone seemed to hope for it. "And without God in this world." For following many false gods, they had lost the one true God. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "his" ("his covenants"); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-12). ## Ephesians 2:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Gentile believers are now equal with the Jews through Christ's blood. ### Latin text Nunc autem in Christo [Iesu uos] qui aliquando eratis longe, facti estis prope. Ita ut Iudaeis [fidehbus] aequaremini, qui cum deo erant. In sanguine Christi. Credendo uos eius sanguine et passione liberatos. ### English translation (Claude) "But now in Christ you who once were far off have been brought near." So that you are made equal to the Jews, who were with God. "By the blood of Christ." By believing that you have been set free by his blood and passion. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Jesus you" in the lemma and "believing" before "Jews"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-13). ## Ephesians 2:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354–355 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ removed the law's burdens, such as circumcision, which divided Jews and Gentiles. ### Latin text Ipse est enim pax nostra , qui fecit utraque unum. Ipse est reconciliatio utriusque populi ad inuicem et ad deum. Et medium parietem saepis. Medius paries et saepis et maceria onera legis erant, duos populos diuidentes, et ideo ipse paries inimicitiae nomina[n]tur. Soluens inimidtias in carne sua. Circumcisionis et ceterorum, quae non tam dei uoluntas quam aut temporis ratio aut populi duritia exegerat. ### English translation (Claude) "For he is our peace, who has made both one." He is the reconciliation of both peoples to each other and to God. "And the middle wall of the fence." The middle wall, the fence, and the partition were the burdens of the law, dividing the two peoples, and therefore it is called the wall of enmity. "Abolishing the enmities in his flesh." Those of circumcision and the rest, which not so much the will of God as either the circumstances of the time or the hardness of the people had required. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius's view that circumcision and similar precepts were required by the time or by the people's hardness rather than by God's will is translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:354–355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-14). ## Ephesians 2:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ set aside the ceremonial law, justifying by faith alone and keeping only moral precepts, and made one people. ### Latin text Legem mandatorum decretis euaeuans. Per solam fidem iustificans et mor[t]alia sola decernens. Ut duos condat in semet ipsum. Iudaeum et gentem in suo corpore aequaliter iungens. In unum nouum hominem faciens paeem. In unum populum Christianum ex duobus effectum. ### English translation (Claude) "Making void the law of commandments by decrees." Justifying by faith alone and decreeing moral precepts only. "That he might create the two in himself." Joining Jew and Gentile equally in his body. "Into one new man, making peace." Into one Christian people made from two. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - "By faith alone" (per solam fidem) is Pelagius's phrase; "moral precepts only" reads mor[t]alia as moralia, as Souter's bracket indicates. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-15). ## Ephesians 2:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Faith in the cross alone, easy enough for the dying thief, reconciles Jew and Gentile to God. ### Latin text Reconeilians ambos in uno corpore deo. Qui[a] ambo per peccatum fuerant separati. Per crucem inter jiciens inimidtias in semet ipso. Per solam fidem crucis, quae nullum deterret : non enim grauis aut difficilis est, quam habere etiam latro potuit cruci fixus. ### English translation (Claude) "And might reconcile both to God in one body." Because both had been separated by sin. "Through the cross, slaying the enmities in himself." Through faith in the cross alone, which deters no one: for it is not heavy or difficult, since even the thief fixed to a cross could have it. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:16: quotation, high confidence - Luke 23:42: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The thief: Luke 23:40–43. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-16). ## Ephesians 2:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ came to reconcile humanity to itself and to God. ### Latin text Et \ueniens\ euangelizauit paeem uobis qui longe [fuistis], et paeem his qui prope. Ad hoc uenit, ut dissidens humanum genus et in semet ipso et in deo ad reconciliationis gratiam reuocare[t]. ### English translation (Claude) "And coming he preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near." He came for this purpose: to call back the human race, at strife both within itself and with God, to the grace of reconciliation. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "were" ([fuistis]); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-17). ## Ephesians 2:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Through Christ both peoples come to the Father in one Spirit. ### Latin text Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum utrique ad patrem. ‘ Nemo uenit ad patrem nisi per me.’ In uno spiritu. Unum corpus unum spiritum habet, et signum pacis unus est spiritus. ### English translation (Claude) "For through him we both have access to the Father." "No one comes to the Father except through me." "In one Spirit." One body has one spirit, and the one Spirit is the sign of peace. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:18: quotation, high confidence - John 14:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is John 14:6. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-18). ## Ephesians 2:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355–356 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Gentile believers are full citizens of God's people, not proselytes. ### Latin text Ergo iam non estis hospites et aduenae , sed estis dues sanctorum et domestid dei. [lam] non extranei neque proseliti: nec enim separanit uos dominus a populo suo, sicut praedixit Isaias, sed ciues, qui eiusdem sunt et originis et habitationis. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God." No longer foreigners or proselytes: for the Lord has not separated you from his people, as Isaiah foretold, but citizens, who are of the same origin and the same dwelling. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:19: quotation, high confidence - Isa 56:3: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Isaiah: Isa 56:3 ("The Lord will surely separate me from his people," which the eunuch and foreigner are not to say). Souter brackets "now"; omitted. A running head was removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:355–356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-19). ## Ephesians 2:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church rests on apostles and New Testament prophets, with Christ as foundation and cornerstone. ### Latin text Superaedificati supra fundamentum apostolorum et prophetarum, ipso summo angulari lapide Christo Iesu. Prophetarum noui testament! , e quibus Agabus fuit, Christus est fundamentum, qui etiam lapis dicitur [lapis] angularis, duos coniungens et continens parietes. ideo autem et fundamentum et summus est, quia in ipso et fundatur et consummatur ecclesia. ### English translation (Claude) "Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone." The prophets of the new covenant, of whom Agabus was one. Christ is the foundation, who is also called the cornerstone, joining and holding together two walls. And he is both foundation and summit because in him the church is both founded and completed. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:20: quotation, high confidence - Acts 11:28: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Agabus: Acts 11:28; 21:10. Souter brackets a repeated "stone"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-20). ## Ephesians 2:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church, Christ's temple, must be holier than the Jerusalem temple that prefigured it. ### Latin text In quo omnis structura compaginata cresdt in templum sanctum in domino . In templo sancto non possunt lapides poni non sancti. ad coinparationem templi Hierosolymae dicit extrui corpus Christi, id est, ecclesiam, ut multo maiorem munditiam et sanctitatem habeat ueritas quam imago. ### English translation (Claude) "In whom the whole structure, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord." In a holy temple stones that are not holy cannot be laid. He says the body of Christ, that is, the church, is built up by comparison with the temple of Jerusalem, so that the reality may have much greater purity and holiness than the image. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:21: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-21). ## Ephesians 2:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-2-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Gentile believers are built with apostles and prophets into God's spiritual house. ### Latin text In quo et uos coaedijicamini in habitaculum dei in spiritu [sancto], [Ut] cum apostolis et prophetis [sitis] habitaculum dei spiritale, non manu factum. ### English translation (Claude) "In whom you also are built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit." That with the apostles and prophets you may be a spiritual dwelling of God, not made by hands. ### Scripture references - Eph 2:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Holy", "That", and "be" ([sitis]); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 2.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/2-22). ## Ephesians 3:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356–357 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's chains confirm the gospel, since he gave up wealth and honour among the Jews for the Gentiles. ### Latin text Huius rei gratia, Huius quam superius memoraui, quod filius dei et gentes saluauerit et Iudaeos, [et] utrosque fecerit unum. Ego Paulus uinctus Christi [Iesu]. Sine: Cat[h]enis. Siue: Christi amore ligatus, non possum meanx nisi.domini facere uoluntatem. sane quando se uinctum nominat, confirmat euangelium Christi, ostendens quanta sit spes eius, pro quo talia pati libenter amplectitur, cum posset aput Iudaeos ut legis doctor et mag[n]is[ter] diuitiis abundare et summo honore gaudere. Pro uobis gentibus . e Secundum euangelium inimici propter uos,’ qui[a] uos similes esse dicimus Iudaeorum. ### English translation (Claude) "For this reason." For the reason I mentioned above: that the Son of God saved both Gentiles and Jews and made both one. "I Paul, the prisoner of Christ." Or: in chains. Or: bound by the love of Christ, I can do nothing but the Lord's will. Indeed, when he calls himself a prisoner, he confirms the gospel of Christ, showing how great his hope is, since for him he gladly embraces such sufferings, when he could have abounded in riches among the Jews as a teacher and master of the law and enjoyed the highest honour. "For you Gentiles." "As regards the gospel they are enemies for your sake," because we say that you are like the Jews. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:1: quotation, high confidence - Rom 11:28: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Rom 11:28. Souter brackets "Jesus" and "and"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:356–357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-1). ## Ephesians 3:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul received a stewardship of teaching among the Gentiles, like the faithful servant. ### Latin text Si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiae dei, quae data est mihi in uobis. Si tamen firmiter retinetis me in uobis dispensationem accepisse doctrinae : f quis ’ enim ‘ fidelis seruus et prudens quern constituit dominus super familiam [suam], ut det illis escam in tempore? ### English translation (Claude) "If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me among you." If indeed you firmly hold that I received among you the stewardship of teaching: for "who is the faithful and wise servant whom the Lord has set over his household, to give them food in due season?" ### Scripture references - Eph 3:2: quotation, high confidence - Matt 24:45: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Matt 24:45 (cf. Luke 12:42). Souter brackets "his"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-2). ## Ephesians 3:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul received by revelation the mystery that Jews and Gentiles are one in Christ. ### Latin text Quoniam secundum reudationem . Non secundum humanam doctrinam. Notum mihi factum est sacramentum, sicut ante perscripsi\t\. Iudaeos et gentes unum esse in Christo. In medico, ### English translation (Claude) "That by revelation." Not by human teaching. "The mystery was made known to me, as I have written above." That Jews and Gentiles are one in Christ. "In brief," ### Scripture references - Eph 3:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-3). ## Ephesians 3:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul wrote as much as his readers could grasp, not with worldly eloquence. ### Latin text prout potestis legentes intellegere prudentiam meam. Non quantum poteram ego scribere, sed quantum [uos] adsequi ualebatis. In mysterio Christi. Non in eloquentia saeculari. ### English translation (Claude) "as you can understand my prudence when you read." Not as much as I could write, but as much as you were able to grasp. "In the mystery of Christ." Not in worldly eloquence. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "you"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-4). ## Ephesians 3:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357–358 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The prophets foresaw the Gentiles' calling but not their full equality with the Jews. ### Latin text Quod aliis nationibus nonfuit notum JUiis hominum , sic ut nunc reuelatum est sanctis eius apostolis et prophetis. Sciebant quidem prophetae priores gentes [esse] uocandas, non tamen sciebant nullam inter ipsos [et] Iudaeos discretionem futuram. In spiritu ### English translation (Claude) "Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets." The earlier prophets knew indeed that the Gentiles would be called, but they did not know that there would be no distinction between them and the Jews. "In the Spirit" ### Scripture references - Eph 3:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "be" and "and"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:357–358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-5). ## Ephesians 3:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Gentiles share fully in the inheritance, the body, and the promise through the gospel. ### Latin text [omnes] gentes esse coheredes. Per spiritum mihi reuelatum. Siue: In spiritu illos sooiatos esse, non [carms] circumcisione[ni]. Et [con]corporales et compartidpes promissionis in Christo lesu. Id est, unius corporis, non solum coheredes, quod [pos]sunt diuersi generis esse, nec solum concorporales, quia possunt eiusdem generis filii non eiusdem esse [in] hereditate substantiae. Per euangdium [meurri] ### English translation (Claude) "that the Gentiles are fellow heirs." Revealed to me through the Spirit. Or: that they are made partners in the Spirit, not by circumcision of the flesh. "And of the same body and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus." That is, of one body; not only fellow heirs, since they can be of different kinds, nor only of the same body, since sons of the same kind may not share the same inheritance of property. "Through the gospel" ### Scripture references - Eph 3:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "all" (the Gentiles), "of the flesh", "my" (gospel), and parts of words; omitted. "Of the flesh" is needed for the sense and is understood. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-6). ## Ephesians 3:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's ministry comes from God's grace and power, not his merit. ### Latin text cuius sum minister foetus . Per meam praedicationem omnibus innotescit, quia mihi hoc peculiariter reuelatum est. Secundum donum gratiae dei[, [uae data est mihi]. Non secundum meritum meum. Secundum operationem uirtulis eius. Cuius uirtus me confirmauit. Siue. Cuius uirtutes meum confirmant euangdium. ### English translation (Claude) "of which I was made a minister." Through my preaching it becomes known to all, because this was revealed to me in particular. "According to the gift of God's grace." Not according to my merit. "According to the working of his power." Whose power strengthened me. Or: whose mighty works confirm my gospel. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "which was given to me"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-7). ## Ephesians 3:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358–359 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul, last in time but not in labour, was given to preach Christ's unsearchable riches. ### Latin text Mihi minima sanctorum omnium data est gratia haec. Minimo tempore, non labore. simul notandum quod inter sanctos se humiliando fecerit gradus. Inter gentes euangdizare [injinucstigoMles di uitias Christi . Adnuntiare futuxae hereditatis diuitias repromissas, quas sensus humanus adprehendere nisi reuelatione non praeuaJet. ### English translation (Claude) "To me, the least of all the saints, this grace was given." Least in time, not in labour. At the same time note that by humbling himself he made ranks among the saints. "To preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." To announce the promised riches of the future inheritance, which human understanding cannot grasp except by revelation. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:358–359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-8). ## Ephesians 3:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The mystery, hidden in God the Creator, is now opened to all, against Marcion's separation of the Creator from God. ### Latin text Et inluminare omnes quae sit dispensatio mysterii. Et Iudaeis et gentibus huius sacramenti pandere rationem. Absconditi a saeculis in deo . Hoc est, [quod] in prioribus temporibus soli deo cognitum erat. Qui omniacreauit. Et Iudaeoset gentes. Siue : Omnem creaturam, ut sensus contra Marcionem proficiat et ceteros haereticos. ### English translation (Claude) "And to enlighten all as to what is the dispensation of the mystery." To lay open the reason of this mystery both to Jews and Gentiles. "Hidden from the ages in God." That is, known to God alone in former times. "Who created all things." Both Jews and Gentiles. Or: every creature, so that the sense may serve against Marcion and the other heretics. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "which"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-9). ## Ephesians 3:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 3:10. ### Latin text Ut innotesceret prindpibus et sacerdotibus in caelestibus per ecdesiam multiformis dei sapientia . [Ut per me his qui rebus caelestibus per omnem ecclesiam principantur, multiformis dei sapientia innotescat.] ### English translation (Claude) "That the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and priests in the heavenly places through the church." ### Scripture references - Eph 3:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the whole comment ("That through me the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to those who rule over heavenly things through the whole church"); omitted. The lemma reads "priests" (sacerdotibus) where the Vulgate has "powers" (potestatibus); translated as printed, probably a slip. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-10). ## Ephesians 3:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God determined that, when no other way remained, people should be saved by faith in Christ alone. ### Latin text Secundum praefinitionem sae culorum quam fecit in Christo Iesu domino nostro. Qua praefiniuit ut hoc tempore, quando iam aliter homines saluari non poterant, sola Christi fide saluarentur. ### English translation (Claude) "According to the predetermination of the ages which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord." By which he determined beforehand that at this time, when people could no longer be saved otherwise, they should be saved by faith in Christ alone. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:11: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-11). ## Ephesians 3:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Access to God is through faith in Christ, not our own righteousness. ### Latin text In quo habemus fidudam et accessum in confidentia[m ] per fvdem eius. Non per nostram iustitiam, sed per eum cuius fides nobis peccata dimisit. ### English translation (Claude) "In whom we have boldness and access in confidence through faith in him." Not through our own righteousness, but through him whose faith forgave us our sins. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:12: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-12). ## Ephesians 3:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359–360 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's sufferings should encourage, not discourage, his readers, since they show his sure hope. ### Latin text Propter quod peto ne defidatis in pressuris mds pro nobis , quae est gloria uestra. Ne me audientes impune l[a]edi, ad deum non pertinere putetis, in quo magis gloriari debetis, intellegentes me tanta absque cert[a]e spei fiducia sustinere non posse. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory." Hearing that I am harmed with impunity, do not think that it does not concern God; rather you ought to glory in it, understanding that I could not bear such things without the confidence of a sure hope. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - A running head was removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:359–360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-13). ## Ephesians 3:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 3:14. ### Latin text Propterea curuo genua mea ad patrem domini nostri Iesu Christi , ### English translation (Claude) "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," ### Scripture references - Eph 3:14: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-14). ## Ephesians 3:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: All fatherhood takes its name from God the Father. ### Latin text ex quo omnis paternitas in caelis et in terns nominatur. Ex quo omnis paternitas nomen accepit. Siue: Ex quo omnis res patema nominatur. ### English translation (Claude) "from whom every fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named." From whom every fatherhood has received its name. Or: from whom every fatherly thing is named. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:15: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-15). ## Ephesians 3:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul prays that God strengthen them by knowledge of his glory. ### Latin text Vt del uobis secundum diuitias claritatis suae uirtutem confortari per spiritum eius. Ut uos per inluminationem scientiae diuitiarum gloriae suae confirmet. [In] interiore[m] homine[m] ### English translation (Claude) "That he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit." That he may strengthen you through the enlightening knowledge of the riches of his glory. "In the inner man" ### Scripture references - Eph 3:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in" and the endings of the following words; omitted without change of sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-16). ## Ephesians 3:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ dwells where faith strengthens the inner man, and love of him extends to all his members. ### Latin text habitare Christum per jidem in cordibus uestris . Ubi interior per fidem robustus est, ibi habitat Christus, non ubi exterior saginatus. In caritate radicati et fundati. Ut in eius amore firmiter stetis et omnium membrorum eius, in quibus ipse diligitur, ut [qui] eum cogn[osc]itis eius beneficiis dihgatis. ### English translation (Claude) "that Christ may dwell through faith in your hearts." Where the inner man is strong through faith, there Christ dwells, not where the outer man is fattened. "Rooted and grounded in love." That you may stand firm in love of him and of all his members, in whom he himself is loved, so that, knowing him, you may love him for his benefits. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "who" and part of a word; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-17). ## Ephesians 3:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360–361 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Only the holy can grasp the dimensions of God's wisdom, which some read as the broad way, eternal life, heaven, and hell. ### Latin text Vtpos[s]itis comprehendere. Ut ex omni parte magnitudinem scientiae comprehendere ualeatis. Cum omnibus sanctis . ‘Quaeres sapientiam aput malos, et non inuenies/ et alibi: ‘in corde autem bono requiescit sapiential Quae sit latitudo et longitudo et altitudo et profundum . Quidam dicunt quod latitudo spatiosa uia intellegatur, longitudo uita aeterna, altitudo caelum, profundum inferi, ut scilicet horum omnium notitiam habentes, nouerint quid eligant uel quid refutent. ### English translation (Claude) "That you may be able to comprehend." That you may be able to comprehend in every respect the greatness of knowledge. "With all the saints." "You will seek wisdom among the wicked and will not find it," and elsewhere: "wisdom rests in a good heart." "What is the breadth and length and height and depth." Some say that the breadth is to be understood as the broad way, the length as eternal life, the height as heaven, the depth as hell, so that, having knowledge of all these, they may know what to choose and what to reject. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:18: quotation, high confidence - Prov 14:6: quotation, medium confidence - Prov 14:33: quotation, medium confidence - Matt 7:13: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are Prov 14:6 and 14:33 (in Latin forms). The "broad way": Matt 7:13. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:360–361; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-18). ## Ephesians 3:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ's love grows from knowledge and surpasses it; believers are to be perfected in his virtues. ### Latin text Scire etiam supereminentem sdentia[m] e[t] caritatem Christi . Supereminet scientiae caritas Christi, cum ex ipsa nascatur, sicut radici supereminet fructus. Ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Christi . Ut perficiamini in omnibus uirtutibus Christi. ### English translation (Claude) "To know also the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge." The love of Christ surpasses knowledge, though it is born of it, as the fruit surpasses the root. "That you may be filled to all the fullness of Christ." That you may be made perfect in all the virtues of Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:19: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "fullness of Christ" (Vulgate: "of God"). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-19). ## Ephesians 3:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God often gives more than we know how to ask. ### Latin text Ei autem qui potens est supra omnia facere abundantiusquam pelimus aut intellegimus [secundum uirtutem quae operatur in nobis]. Frequenter maiora tribuit non solum quam petimus, sed etiam quam petere intellegimus, quod ex uirtute signorum intellegimus, quae operatur in nobis. ### English translation (Claude) "Now to him who is able to do above all things more abundantly than we ask or understand." Often he grants greater things not only than we ask but than we understand how to ask, as we understand from the power of the signs that works in us. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "according to the power that works in us" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-20). ## Ephesians 3:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/0/#p-3-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361–362 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul closes the doctrinal half with praise and turns to moral instruction for the church. ### Latin text Ipsi gloria in Christo Iesu et in ecclesia. Quia ueniens Christus sibimet ad dei gloriam ecclesiam congregauit. In omnia saecula saeculorum. Immensa beneficia immensi[s] s[unt] laudibus celebranda, non solum de his quae temporibus Christi contulit, sed etiam quae [et] ante fecit et [ante] faciet. Amen. Hucusque de mysterio incamationis Christi et de uocatione gentium et imitate cum Iudaeis per euangelium facta, cuius mi[ni]sterium ipse suscepit et per omnia uerbo et oratio[ne] sua eos [et] labore exhibere [se] perfectos edocuit. bi[n]c incipit moralia omnifa] ecclesiae tradere instituta. ### English translation (Claude) "To him be glory in Christ Jesus and in the church." Because Christ, in coming, gathered the church for himself to the glory of God. "Unto all ages of ages." Immeasurable benefits are to be celebrated with immeasurable praises, not only for those he conferred in the times of Christ but also for those he did before and will do. "Amen." Up to here he has spoken of the mystery of Christ's incarnation and of the calling of the Gentiles and the unity with the Jews brought about by the gospel, whose ministry he himself undertook, and by word, prayer and labour in all things he taught them to show themselves perfect. From here he begins to hand on moral instructions for the whole church. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and", "before", "himself", and parts of words; omitted. A running head was removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 3.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:361–362; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/3-21). ## Ephesians 4:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul urges his readers to live worthily of their calling as God's sons. ### Latin text Obsecro \%taque\ uos ego uinctus in domino , ut digne ambuletis uocatione qua uocati estis . Ego uos rogo, qui uestri causa sum uinctus, ut uos dei filios agnoscentes, digne tanto honore uersemini, quia una quaeque dignitas habet quibus agnoscatur, propria instituta. ### English translation (Claude) "I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling with which you have been called." I who am in chains for your sake ask you, recognizing yourselves as sons of God, to live worthily of so great an honour; for every rank has its own instructions by which it is recognized. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:1: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1). ## Ephesians 4:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Humility, meekness, patience, and loving forbearance preserve the Spirit's unity. ### Latin text Cumomnihumilitate et mansuetudine, cum patientia. Et mentis et corporis : humilitas uera nihil sibi uindicat, mansuetus nulli nocet, patiens nulli uicem reddit iniuriae. Subportantes inuicem in caritate. Sufferunt et philosophi sed non in caritate : nos uero, non ut laudemur, sed ut ille quern sustinemus proficiat, diligenter sustinere debemus. Solliciti seruare unitatem spiritus in uinculo pads . Per uinculum pacis in nobis unitas spiritus continetur: ‘ multitudinis ’ enim c credentium erat cor unum et anima una.’ ### English translation (Claude) "With all humility and meekness, with patience." Both of mind and of body: true humility claims nothing for itself, the meek man harms no one, the patient man repays no injury. "Bearing with one another in love." Philosophers also bear with others, but not in love; we, not in order to be praised but so that the one we bear with may make progress, ought to bear with him diligently. "Eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Through the bond of peace the unity of the Spirit is maintained in us: for "the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul." ### Scripture references - Eph 4:2: quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:3: quotation, high confidence - Acts 4:32: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 4:3. The quotation is Acts 4:32. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-2). ## Ephesians 4:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 4:4. ### Latin text TJnum corpus et unus [s\piritus, sicut uocati estis in una spe uocationis uestrae: ### English translation (Claude) "One body and one Spirit, as you were called in one hope of your calling:" ### Scripture references - Eph 4:4: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-4). ## Ephesians 4:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362–363 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: One body, faith, and baptism mean one standard of holiness for all believers, whatever their worldly station. ### Latin text unus dominies , unajides , unum baptismum . Unum consensum debet habere in uno corpore omnium [est] compago membrorum, quae ad una[m] spe[m] sunt uocata salutis. unde diligentius legere debe[re]nt hunc locum hi[i] qui saeculi occupationibus inligati putant sibi licere peccare et aliis non licere, cum omnes in nnnm corpus baptizati spiritum eundem acceperint et in una spe uocati sint dei. [Siue sic:] Si unum spiritum habetis et ex uno patre deo nati estis, nolite uobis de terrena nobilitate aliquit adrogare, ne ueram gloriam amittatis. Unus deus et pater omnium . Etiam eorum qui ex gentibus crediderunt. Qui super omnes et per omnia et in omnibus nobis . Super omnes uirtutes ut [omni]potens, per omnia opera sua qu[i]a immensus, in omnibus Christianis secundum sanctificationem qua habitare dignatur. ### English translation (Claude) "one Lord, one faith, one baptism." One body must have one consent; the frame of all the members is in one body, and they are called to one hope of salvation. Hence those who are bound up in the business of the world and think that they may sin while others may not ought to read this passage more carefully, since all have been baptized into one body, have received the same Spirit, and have been called in one hope of God. If you have one Spirit and are born of one Father, God, do not claim anything for yourselves on the ground of earthly nobility, lest you lose the true glory. "One God and Father of all." Even of those who have believed from the Gentiles. "Who is above all and through all and in us all." Above all powers as almighty, through all his works because he is immeasurable, in all Christians by the sanctification by which he deigns to dwell in them. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:6: quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemmas of 4:5 and 4:6 (the lemma "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" is 4:5). Souter brackets "Or thus:" and parts of words; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:362–363; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-6). ## Ephesians 4:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:363 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Each receives grace according to Christ's gift and the capacity he prepares in himself. ### Latin text Uni cuique autem nostrum data est gratia . Non multa sunt corpora per uarietatem gratiarum, sed membra diuersa. Secundum mensuram. Tam nostrae capacitatis quam illius largitatis. Donationis Christi. Qui ad quam gratiam se aptauerit, ipsam consequetur: ut puta, qui studiosus legis est, sapientiam, multum orans et ieiunans, eiciendi spiritus potestatem. ### English translation (Claude) "But to each one of us grace has been given." There are not many bodies because of the variety of graces, but different members. "According to the measure." Both of our capacity and of his generosity. "Of the gift of Christ." Whatever grace one fits oneself for, that grace he will obtain: for example, one who studies the law obtains wisdom; one who prays and fasts much, the power to cast out spirits. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:7: quotation, high confidence - Mark 9:29: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius's view that one obtains the grace one fits oneself for is translated exactly. Cf. Mark 9:29 on prayer and fasting. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:363; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-7). ## Ephesians 4:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:363–364 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ took the devil's captives for life when he ascended. ### Latin text Propter quod didt: Ascendens in altum captiuam egit captiuitatem , dedit dona hominibus . Quos diabolus captiuos tenebat in morte, Ghiistus captiuauit ad uitam, caput nostrum in caelestibus collocando. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore he says: Ascending on high he led captivity captive, he gave gifts to men." Those whom the devil held captive in death, Christ took captive for life, setting our head in the heavenly places. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:8: quotation, high confidence - Ps 68:18 (67:19 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Ps 68:18 (67:19 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:363–364; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-8). ## Ephesians 4:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:364 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ, everywhere as God, descended in the form of a servant to hell and ascended body and soul. ### Latin text Quod autem ascendit, quid est nisi quod et descendit. Exponit cur dicatur ascendisse, quem ubique esse non dubium est, secundum formam scilicet send, ad quam non localiter, sed dignanter descenderat. [. Primuni ] in in feriora terrae? Infemum sub terra esse nemo iam ambigat. Qui descendit , ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos . Qui descendit cum anima in infemum, ipse cum anima et io corpore ascendit in caelum. TJt [ad]impleret omnia . Gloria triumphantis. Siue: Quae scripta sunt. Siue: Dum iam humanitas cum diuinitate unum effecta est. ### English translation (Claude) "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended?" He explains why he is said to have ascended who, there is no doubt, is everywhere: namely, according to the form of a servant, into which he had descended not by place but by condescension. "Into the lower parts of the earth?" Let no one now doubt that hell is under the earth. "He who descended is the same also who ascended above all the heavens." He who descended with his soul into hell, the same ascended with soul and body into heaven. "That he might fill all things." With the glory of the triumphant one. Or: the things that are written. Or: since humanity has now been made one with divinity. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:9: quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:10: quotation, high confidence - Phil 2:7: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 4:10. "Form of a servant": Phil 2:7. Souter brackets "first" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:364; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-9). ## Ephesians 4:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:364–365 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The same ministries are given by the Father and by Christ, against the Arians; pastors are priests, teachers any who can instruct. ### Latin text Et ipse dedit quosdam [quidem apostolos , quosdam] autem prophetas. Contra Arrianos, ut filii et patris una sit operatio: nam ad Corintbios deum patrem dicit istos in ecclesia ordinasse, hie uero Christum hos dedisse commemorat. Alios uero euangdistas. Omnis apostolus euangelista, non omnis euangelista apostolus, sicut Philip[p]us, qui unus erat ex septem.’ Alios \autem\ pastores et magistros . Pastores sunt sacerdotes, doctores uero omnes qui sunt idonei ad alios instruendos. omnia ergo pastor doctor, non omnis [qui] doctor, et pastor. ### English translation (Claude) "And he gave some apostles, and some prophets." Against the Arians, that the working of the Son and of the Father is one: for to the Corinthians he says that God the Father appointed these in the church, but here he records that Christ gave them. "And others evangelists." Every apostle is an evangelist, not every evangelist an apostle, as Philip, who was one of the seven. "And others pastors and teachers." Pastors are the priests, and teachers are all who are fit to instruct others. Every pastor, then, is a teacher, not every teacher a pastor. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:11: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 12:28: allusion, high confidence - Acts 21:8: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Corinthians: 1 Cor 12:28. Philip: Acts 21:8. Souter brackets "indeed apostles, some" in the lemma (Vulgate "some apostles" is translated as the sense requires) and "who"; the bracketed lemma words are kept in the translation because the comment requires them. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:364–365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-11). ## Ephesians 4:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Ministers are given to perfect the saints and build up the church. ### Latin text Ad conmmmationem sanetorumin opus ministerii , in ae[di]jicationem corporis Christi. Utperficiantursancti[s]. Siue: [Utjeorumnumerusimpleatur. hi omnes sunt constituti ad aedificandam ecclesiam, quae corpus est Christi, ut omnes ad fidei perfectionem perduca[n]t. ### English translation (Claude) "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ." That the saints may be made perfect. Or: that their number may be completed. All these were appointed to build up the church, which is the body of Christ, so that they may bring all to perfection of faith. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:12: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-12). ## Ephesians 4:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowing the Son means not sinning and imitating Christ's perfect virtue. ### Latin text Donee occwrramus omnes in unitatem jidei. Hoc uotum et in falsis doctoribus inest[; id est, ‘uolo esse omnes homines sicut me ’]. Et agnitionem JUii dei . Hie agnouit gratiam filii dei, qui non peccat, quia ‘ omnis qui peccat, non uidit eum nec cognouit eum.’ In uirum perfectum, in mensuram aetatis plenitudinis Christi. ‘Qui’ enim ‘dicit se in Christo manere, debet, sicut ille ambulauit, et ipse ambulare,’ et non annorum eius aetatem, Bed uirtutem plenitudinis imitari. ### English translation (Claude) "Until we all attain to the unity of the faith." This wish is present even in false teachers. "And of the knowledge of the Son of God." He has recognized the grace of the Son of God who does not sin, because "everyone who sins has not seen him nor known him." "To the perfect man, to the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ." For "whoever says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as he walked," and to imitate not the age of his years but the virtue of his fullness. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:13: quotation, high confidence - 1 John 3:6: quotation, high confidence - 1 John 2:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the words "that is, 'I wish all men to be as I am'" (1 Cor 7:7); omitted. The quotations are 1 John 3:6 and 1 John 2:6. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-13). ## Ephesians 4:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365–366 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Mature faith is not tossed by every teaching that the cunning spread. ### Latin text Ut iam non simus paruutli [fiuctuantes ] et dreumferamur omni uento doctrinae. Ut non simus ignorantes nec dubii ac uacillantes, et more imperiti gubematoris omnis doctrinae uento nostrae fidei uela pandentes, ne facile naufrag[ar]emus aut a[pu]d portum perfectionis numquam peruenire possimus. In nequitia hominum et astutia. Nequitia humana astutis disputationibus a recto fidei cuxsu [de]torquet incautos. Ad remedium err oris. Siue: Quod multi quoddam erroris sui remedium putent, si multos secum traxerint ad errorem. [Siue: Errantibus remedium sine labore promittentes, permanere faciunt in] errore. ### English translation (Claude) "That we may no longer be children, and be carried about by every wind of doctrine." That we may not be ignorant or doubtful and wavering, and, like an unskilled helmsman, spread the sails of our faith to the wind of every doctrine, lest we easily suffer shipwreck or never be able to reach the harbour of perfection. "In the wickedness and cunning of men." Human wickedness, by cunning disputations, twists the unwary from the right course of faith. "For the remedy of error." Or: because many think it a kind of remedy for their error if they draw many with them into error. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "tossed" in the lemma and a final alternative ("Or: promising the erring a remedy without labour, they make them remain in error"); omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:365–366; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-14). ## Ephesians 4:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:366–367 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Each member grows in love in its own place, and so the whole body grows. ### Latin text Veritatem autem faoientes in caritate. Omnia in ueritate propter caritatem Christi, et in hypocrisi facientes. Crescamus per omnia in ipsum. In ipsius perfectionem ex omni parte crescamus. Qui est caput Christus, ex quo totum corpus compactum et conexum per omnem iuncturam subministrationis secundum operationem. Ex capite conexum corpus per omnem subiunctionem operationis crescit, dum se alterutmm membra aedificant diligendo, ita ut unum quodque membrum in sua mensura augeatur; hoc est, ut [qui est] per sapientiam oculus, in eorum numerum crescat qui oculi officium gerunt, et singula [suo] loco membra profidant. In mensuram unius cuiusque membri augmentum corporis facit in aedijicationem sui in cavitate, Dum singula membra crescunt, mains efficitur corpus. ### English translation (Claude) "But doing the truth in love." Doing all things in truth for the love of Christ, and not in hypocrisy. "Let us grow up in all things into him." Let us grow in every part into his perfection. "Who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body, fitted and joined together through every joint of supply, according to the working." The body joined to the head grows through every connection of working, while the members build each other up by loving, so that each member grows in its own measure; that is, that one who is an eye through wisdom may grow into the number of those who perform the office of the eye, and the individual members may make progress in their own place. "In the measure of each member makes the increase of the body for the building up of itself in love." While the individual members grow, the body becomes greater. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:15: quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 4:16. The text of the comment "and in hypocrisy" is taken to mean "and not in hypocrisy." Leaked apparatus and line numbers were removed. Souter brackets "who is" and "his own"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:366–367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-15). ## Ephesians 4:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:367 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christians must differ in conduct from the Gentiles as much as God differs from the devil. ### Latin text Hoc ergo dico et testificor in domino, Quos superius obsecrauerat, hie domini obtestation© constringit. Ut iam non ambidetis ita ut gentes ambulant, ‘Nolo/ [ait,] ‘solo uos esse nomine Christianos, et deum ore confitentes operibus denegare, sed quantum inter diabolum distat et deum, tanta differentia debent filii dei a filii[s] diaboli [in operibus] discrepare, ne deum labiis honorantes, cordis [affectu et] timore longius absistamus, et dicat ur de nobis: u sine causa colunt me”; hoc est, ex mea cultura nullos capient fructus.5 In uanitate sensus sui. ‘Uani sunt5 [enim] ‘omnes homines quibus non [sub-] est scientia dei/ ### English translation (Claude) "This therefore I say and testify in the Lord," He now binds with an adjuration in the Lord those whom he had besought above. "That you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk." "I do not wish," he says, "that you be Christians in name only, and confess God with the mouth while denying him by works; but as great as the distance between the devil and God, so great a difference ought the sons of God to show from the sons of the devil, lest, honouring God with our lips, we stand far off from him in fear of heart, and it be said of us: 'In vain do they worship me'; that is, they will receive no fruit from worshipping me." "In the vanity of their mind." "Vain are all men in whom there is no knowledge of God." ### Scripture references - Eph 4:17: quotation, high confidence - Isa 29:13: quotation, high confidence - Matt 15:9: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Wis 13:1 (Wisdom of Solomon): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Honouring with their lips ... in vain": Isa 29:13; Matt 15:8–9. "Vain are all men": Wis 13:1. Souter brackets "he says", "in works", "the feeling and", and "for"; omitted. The text reads "fear of heart" (timore), translated as printed. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-17). ## Ephesians 4:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:367–368 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Gentiles have natural understanding, darkened by ignorance, which breeds contempt of God. ### Latin text Tenebris obscuratum habentes intettectum. Habent quidem naturaliter intellectum, sed ignorantiae et mundanarum sollicitudinum caligine ac tenebris obscuratum. AUenati a uita dei. Uli ideo a uita alienati sunt dei, quia ignorant; uos autem qui cognouitis deum, sequi debetis. Per ignorantiam quae est in ipsis. Notandum quia contemptum dei ignorantia geuerauit. Propter caedtatem cordis ipsarum. Excaecatum est ‘insipiens cor eorum ‘ dicentium : Non est deus.J ### English translation (Claude) "Having their understanding darkened." They have understanding by nature, but darkened by the fog and darkness of ignorance and worldly cares. "Alienated from the life of God." They are alienated from the life of God because they do not know him; but you who have known God ought to follow him. "Through the ignorance that is in them." Note that ignorance gave birth to contempt of God. "Because of the blindness of their heart." "Their foolish heart was darkened," of those who say: "There is no God." ### Scripture references - Eph 4:18: quotation, high confidence - Rom 1:21: quotation, high confidence - Ps 14:1 (13:1 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Rom 1:21; Ps 14:1 (13:1 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:367–368; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-18). ## Ephesians 4:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Despair of judgment drives people to pleasure and every vice. ### Latin text Qui desperantes semet ipsos tradiderunt impudic itiae , Desperantes poenam lmpiorum et praemium esse iustorum. et [idcirco] necesse est ut praesentibus uoluptatibus inhaereant qni futnra desperant, sicut in libro Sapientiae dicitur ex persona eorum qui ‘animam in aerem dissolui ’ praesumpserant: uenite et fruamur bonis quae sunt/ et cetera. In operationem immunditia# omnis et auaritiae. Omnia criminatotius immunditiae et auaritiae nomine comprehendit. Uos autem non ita dididstis Christum, ### English translation (Claude) "Who, despairing, have given themselves over to lewdness," Despairing of the punishment of the wicked and the reward of the righteous; and it is inevitable that those who despair of the future cling to present pleasures, as is said in the book of Wisdom in the person of those who presumed that "the soul is dissolved into air": "Come, let us enjoy the good things that are," and the rest. "To the working of all uncleanness and greed." He includes all crimes under the names of uncleanness and greed. "But you did not so learn Christ," ### Scripture references - Eph 4:19: quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:20: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Wis 2:3 (Wisdom of Solomon): quotation, high confidence - Wis 2:6 (Wisdom of Solomon): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 4:20. Wisdom: Wis 2:3, 2:6. Souter brackets "therefore"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-19). ## Ephesians 4:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Truly learning Christ means sharing no vice with the Gentiles and walking in new life. ### Latin text si tamen ilium audistis etinitto [e]docti estis. Ut, sicut illi, gentili ritu uiuatis : ille enim uere Christum audiuit et ab ipso [di]dicit, qui in nullo uitio gentibus similis inuenitur. Sicut est ueritas in Iesu. Sicut ille uere mortuus est et uere resurrexit, ut nos uere in nouitate uitae ambulemus. ### English translation (Claude) "if indeed you have heard him and have been taught in him." So as to live, as they do, in the Gentile manner: for he has truly heard Christ and learned from him who is found like the Gentiles in no vice. "As the truth is in Jesus." As he truly died and truly rose, so that we may truly walk in newness of life. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:21: quotation, high confidence - Rom 6:4: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first comment is compressed: Paul means that they did not learn Christ so as to live like the Gentiles. "Newness of life": Rom 6:4. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-21). ## Ephesians 4:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368–369 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The old man is put off by leaving former errors and changing one's mind and conduct. ### Latin text Deponere uos secundum prior em conuersationem ueterem hominem. Exposuit qui[d] sit uetus homo et quo modo deponatur, scilicet qui pristiuos errores deserat Indus mundi, [et qui] non membris corporis, sed meute et conuersatione mutatur. Qui corrumpitur secundum desideria err oris. Faciens uoluntatem camalium cogitationum. ### English translation (Claude) "To put off, according to your former manner of life, the old man." He has explained what the old man is and how he is put off: namely, whoever forsakes the former errors and the pleasures of the world, and is changed not in the members of the body but in mind and way of life. "Who is corrupted according to the desires of error." Doing the will of fleshly thoughts. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and who"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:368–369; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-22). ## Ephesians 4:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Renewal of the mind is the new heart and spirit the prophet commands. ### Latin text Renouamini autem spiritu[s\ mentis uestrae. Sicut Hieremias ait ; ‘facite uobis cor nouum et spiritum nouum.’ ### English translation (Claude) "But be renewed in the spirit of your mind." As Jeremiah says: "Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit." ### Scripture references - Eph 4:23: quotation, high confidence - Ezek 18:31: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Ezek 18:31, which Pelagius ascribes to Jeremiah. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-23). ## Ephesians 4:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The new man is the image of God: righteous, holy, and truthful. ### Latin text Et induite nouum hominem. Ex uetere intellege nouum. Qui secundum deum creatus est in iustitia [et sanctitate et ueritate]. Exposuit quid sit hominem ad imaginem dei esse creatum, ut scilicet iustus [sit] et sanctus [sit] et uerax [sit,] [sic]ut deus. et sanctitate et ueritate,’ non uanitate; hoc est, quae uanam hominum gloriam aucupatur, cum scriptum sit: ‘iuste quod iustum est persequeris.’ ### English translation (Claude) "And put on the new man." From the old understand the new. "Who according to God is created in righteousness." He has explained what it is for man to be created in the image of God: namely, that he be righteous and holy and truthful, as God is. "And holiness and truth," not vanity; that is, the holiness that hunts for the vain glory of men, since it is written: "Justly pursue what is just." ### Scripture references - Eph 4:24: quotation, high confidence - Gen 1:27: allusion, medium confidence - Deut 16:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and holiness and truth" in the first lemma, "be" three times, and "so"; omitted. The final quotation is Deut 16:20 in its Latin form. The phrase "that is ... men" is compressed: true holiness is set against the vanity that seeks human glory. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-24). ## Ephesians 4:25 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-25 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369–370 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Truthfulness follows from our being members of one body. ### Latin text Propter quod deponentes mendadum . Hi[n]c describit ipsas species sanctitatis, quibus nouus homo agnoscitur. Loquimini ueritatem unus quisque cum proximo suo , quoniam sumus atierutrum membra . Nemo suum circumueniat fratrem, quia unum corpus sumus et non possunt alterutro membra se fallere uel etiam laniare: nec enim manus inludit oculum aut dentes lacerant membra, nisi forte ubi spiritus inmundus inhabitat. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore putting away lying." From here he describes the very forms of holiness by which the new man is recognized. "Speak the truth each one with his neighbour, for we are members of one another." Let no one cheat his brother, because we are one body, and members cannot deceive or even tear one another: for the hand does not mock the eye, nor do the teeth tear the members, unless perhaps where an unclean spirit dwells. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:25: quotation, high confidence - Zech 8:16: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma quotes Zech 8:16. A running head was removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:369–370; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-25). ## Ephesians 4:26 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-26 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Anger must become measured correction of a brother's sin, not revenge. ### Latin text Irascimini et nolite peccare. Ira non inebriet mentem, sed [se]ueritas dispense[n]tur, nec tuam iniuriam sed fratris animaduerte peccatum. Sol non occidat super iracundiam uestram. Ne scientiae lumen in tua indignations deficiat. ### English translation (Claude) "Be angry and do not sin." Let anger not intoxicate the mind, but let severity be applied, and correct not your own injury but your brother's sin. "Let not the sun go down upon your anger." Lest the light of knowledge fail in your indignation. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:26: quotation, high confidence - Ps 4:4 (4:5 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma quotes Ps 4:4 (4:5 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-26). ## Ephesians 4:27 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-27 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sin opens the door to the devil, righteousness to the Holy Spirit. ### Latin text Nolite locum dare diabolo. Irascendo, uel quolibet alio delicto: porta enim diaboli est peccatum, sicut spiritus sancti porta iustitia est. ### English translation (Claude) "Do not give place to the devil." By being angry, or by any other offence: for sin is the devil's gate, as righteousness is the gate of the Holy Spirit. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:27: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-27). ## Ephesians 4:28 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-28 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The former thief must work honestly and give to the needy, avoiding evil trades. ### Latin text Quifurabatur, iam nonfuretur , magis autem laboret. Alienos labores aliquando direptos nunc suo labore compenset, et operando tribuat indigentibus, qui multos furando fecit egentes. Operando manibus quod bonum est , ut habeat com municare necessitatem sustinentibus. Non quod malum: sunt enim multae uel inhonest[a]e uel maJ[a]e artes, ut maleficia et ea quae non ad naturae necessitatem, sed ad concupiscentiarum proficiu[n]t uoluptatem. ### English translation (Claude) "Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labour." Let him make good by his own labour other people's labours that he once plundered, and by working give to the needy, he who by stealing made many destitute. "Working with his hands what is good, so that he may have something to share with those in need." Not what is evil: for there are many either dishonourable or evil trades, such as sorcery, and those that serve not the needs of nature but the pleasure of desires. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:28: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-28). ## Ephesians 4:29 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-29 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370–371 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christian speech should build up faith and give grace to hearers. ### Latin text Omnis sermo malus de ore [uestro] non procedat. Non unus nec duo, sed omnes mali sermones in ore Christiani debent esse cruci fixi. Sed si quis bonus [est\ ad aedificationem Jidei . Non silentium inposuit, sed qualitatem loquendi [dejmonstrauit, ut omnis sermo fidem aedificet Chnstianam, et os nostrum ad solum pateat dei uerbum. [simul] notandum quia hoc uniuersae ecclesiae praecipitur. Ut [et] det gratiam audientibus, Hoc est quod alibi dicit: 'sermo uester in gratia sit sale conditus/ ut ex sermone nostro . gratiam accipiant audientes. ### English translation (Claude) "Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth." Not one or two, but all evil words ought to be crucified in a Christian's mouth. "But only such as is good for the building up of faith." He did not impose silence, but showed the quality of speech, so that every word should build up Christian faith, and our mouth should be open only to the word of God. Note that this is commanded to the whole church. "That it may give grace to the hearers." This is what he says elsewhere: "Let your speech be in grace, seasoned with salt," so that the hearers may receive grace from our speech. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:29: quotation, high confidence - Col 4:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Col 4:6. Souter brackets "your", "is", "at the same time", and "also"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:370–371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-29). ## Ephesians 4:30 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-30 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:371 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sin grieves the Spirit received at baptism; in God such "passions" are chosen dispensations, not sufferings. ### Latin text Et Tiolite contristare spiritum sanctum dei . Hominibus loquens comparationes inducit humanas, ut ex nobis intellegamus quantum spiritui sancto iniuriam faci[a]mus, cum domum eius in nobis aliqua peccati sorde polluimus, et quia de hospitio suo nobis condolens, non sibi dolens, tristis abscedat. ceterum tristitia e[t] ira et cetera huius modi in nobis passiones sunt, quia passibiles sumus, in deo uero dispensationes: nos enim ilia inuiti patimur, ille uoluntate ad nostram emendationem adsumit, et haec est inter deum et hominem harum condicionum diuersitas, qu[a]e naturae. In quo signati estis in die redemptionis, Signaculum sancti spiritus in die baptismi accepistis, nouum signaculum habere coepistis. ### English translation (Claude) "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God." Speaking to human beings, he uses human comparisons, so that we may understand from ourselves how great an injury we do to the Holy Spirit when we pollute his house in us with some stain of sin, and that, grieving for us and not for himself, he departs sorrowful from his lodging. For the rest, sorrow and anger and other such things are passions in us, because we are passible, but in God they are dispensations: for we suffer them unwillingly, he takes them on by his will for our correction; and this is the difference of these conditions between God and man, which is a difference of nature. "In whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." You received the seal of the Holy Spirit on the day of baptism; you began to have a new seal. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:30: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The Latin "in die redemptionis" ("on the day") is applied to the day of baptism. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-30). ## Ephesians 4:31 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-31 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:371–372 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul lists the sins that grieve the Spirit, from bitterness to malice. ### Latin text Omnis amaritudo, In quibus contristetur spiritus sanctus ostendit: recte autem ir[a]e praeposuit amaritudinem, quia ipsa est prouocatio. Et ira. Omnem abstulit iram. Et indignatio. [Indignatio] ex superbia [eat], cum aliquem iudicamus indignum, et ideo eum nolumus suatinere. Et danwr. Clamor, qui ex furore descendit, que[m] non habuit Christus. ceterum Isaias bene clamare iubetur: sed [et] ipae dominus ‘ clamabat’ in templo: ‘qui sitit, ueniat et bibat.’ Et blasphemia auferatur a uobis cum omni malitia . Quae uel inimico potest uicem reddere. ### English translation (Claude) "All bitterness." He shows by what the Holy Spirit is grieved; and rightly he put bitterness before anger, because it is the provocation. "And anger." He took away all anger. "And indignation." Indignation comes from pride, when we judge someone unworthy and therefore will not bear with him. "And clamour." Clamour, which comes from fury, which Christ did not have. Isaiah, however, is rightly bidden to cry aloud; and the Lord himself "cried" in the temple: "If anyone thirsts, let him come and drink." "And blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice." Malice that can repay even an enemy in kind. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:31: quotation, high confidence - Isa 58:1: allusion, medium confidence - John 7:37: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Isaiah: Isa 58:1. The Lord's cry: John 7:37. Souter brackets "Indignation", "is", and "also"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:371–372; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-31). ## Ephesians 4:32 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-4-32 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:372 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers must forgive as God forgave, since they are God's sons by imitation, not nature. ### Latin text Estote autem inuicem benigni. Seruat[e] ordinem legis, ut non solum malitia tollatur, sed etiam benignitas inseratur. Misericordes. [Id est,] condolentes. Donantes inuicemy sicut [et] dens in Christo donauit uobis . Remittentes peccata, ne nobis dicatur; ‘seme nequam, omne debitum dimisi tibi [quoniam rogasti me; non] oportuit et te dimittere conseruo tuo.’ Estote ergo imitatores dei sicut filii carissimi. Imitatione enim [natura], non natura filii dei sumus, sicut ait saluator: ‘ut sitia filii patris uestri qui in caelis est,’ et cetera. ### English translation (Claude) "And be kind to one another." Keep the order of the law, so that not only is malice taken away but kindness is also put in. "Merciful." Compassionate. "Forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." Forgiving sins, lest it be said to us: "Wicked servant, I forgave you all the debt; you ought also to have forgiven your fellow servant." "Be therefore imitators of God, as dearest sons." For by imitation, not by nature, we are sons of God, as the Saviour says: "That you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven," and the rest. ### Scripture references - Eph 4:32: quotation, high confidence - Eph 5:1: quotation, high confidence - Matt 18:32: quotation, high confidence - Matt 18:33: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:45: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section includes the lemma of 5:1. Quotations: Matt 18:32–33; Matt 5:45. Souter brackets "That is", "also", "because you asked me; not", and a duplicated "nature"; omitted. "By imitation, not by nature" is translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 4.32 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:372; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-32). ## Ephesians 5:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:372–373 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ gave himself freely for sinners, and believers are to love as he loved. ### Latin text Et ambulate in dilectione , sicut et Christus dilexit uos. Unde et Iohannes apostolus ait : ‘ in hoc cognouimus caritatem, qui[a] ille pro nobis ammam suam posuit: debemus ergo et nos pro fratribus nostris animas ponere.’ Et tradidit se[met] ipsum. Uoluntarie ipse se tradidit, non ab alio inuitus .est traditusf; licet hoc non faciat excusabiles traditores]. Pro nobis . [Pro] peccatoribus, ut fierent iusti. Oblationem et hostiam deo in odorem suauitatis. [Suauissimus deo odor est caritatis.] ### English translation (Claude) "And walk in love, as Christ also loved you." Hence the apostle John also says: "By this we have known love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers." "And gave himself up." He gave himself up voluntarily; he was not handed over unwillingly by another. "For us." For sinners, that they might become righteous. "An offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness." ### Scripture references - Eph 5:2: quotation, high confidence - 1 John 3:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is 1 John 3:16. Souter brackets "though this does not excuse the betrayers", "For", and the comment "The sweetest odour to God is that of love"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:372–373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-2). ## Ephesians 5:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sexual immorality and greed, the roots of sin, must not even be named among the saints. ### Latin text Fomicatio autem et omnis inmunditia aut auaritia . Omnia crimina breuiter comprehendit, duascriminum designando radices. Nec nominetur in uobis , sicut decet sanetos . Considerandum s[c]i licet fieri quod non licet nominari. ### English translation (Claude) "But sexual immorality and all uncleanness or greed." He covers all crimes briefly by naming the two roots of crimes. "Let it not even be named among you, as befits saints." Consider whether it is lawful to do what it is not lawful to name. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-3). ## Ephesians 5:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Coarse talk and jesting do not befit Christians, who should give thanks. ### Latin text Aut turpitudo aut stuUiloquium . Hoc etiam in filiis hominum reprehenditur honestorum. Aut scurrilitas quae ad rent non pertinet. Risum mouens [qui] grauitati non conuenit Christianae, quia ad rem caelestem diuinamque non pertinet. Sed magis gratiarum actio. Hoc magis semper tractare debetis, quo modo deo et actu et cogitatione placeatis. ### English translation (Claude) "Or obscenity or foolish talk." This is censured even among the sons of honourable men. "Or jesting, which is not to the point." Moving laughter, which does not suit Christian gravity, because it does not belong to the heavenly and divine matter. "But rather thanksgiving." Rather you should always be considering how to please God in deed and thought. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "which"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-4). ## Ephesians 5:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373–374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Against those who say faith alone suffices, Paul excludes the immoral from God's kingdom. ### Latin text Hoc enim scitote intellegentes quod omnis impudicus aut auarus aut inmundus, quod est idolorum seruitus , non habet hereditatem in regno Christi et dei. Contra illos agit, qui solam fidem dicunt posse sufficere, qui[a] hums modi actus non [ex] deo, sed daemoni[o] exhibentur: hereditas autem regni caelorum dei filiis, non diaboli praeparatur. ### English translation (Claude) "For know this and understand, that every fornicator or covetous or unclean person, which is idolatry, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." He argues against those who say that faith alone can suffice, because acts of this kind are performed not for God but for a demon; and the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven is prepared for sons of God, not for sons of the devil. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius's polemic against those who say "faith alone can suffice" is translated exactly. Souter brackets "from" and a letter; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:373–374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-5). ## Ephesians 5:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Faith and baptism do not save those who go on sinning; God's past judgments warn of future wrath. ### Latin text Nemo uos seducat . Di[s]cendo: “hoc solum opus est, ut fides sit, et homo Christi baptisms consequatur: quantumuis peccet, perire nonpoterit.” Inanibus uerbis. Quae hominem liberare non poterunt. Propter hoc enim uenit ira dei . Ex praeteritis futura cognoscite : si Sodomitis pepercit et his qui in diluuio perierunt, parcet etuobis. Injilios diffidentiae. Qui non crediderunt [iam] iram comminantis dei super se esse uenturam. ### English translation (Claude) "Let no one deceive you." By saying: "This alone is needed, that there be faith and that a person obtain Christ's baptism; however much he sins, he cannot perish." "With empty words." Which will not be able to set a person free. "For because of these things the wrath of God comes." Know the future from the past: if he spared the Sodomites and those who perished in the flood, he will spare you too. "Upon the sons of unbelief." Who did not believe that the wrath of God, who threatens, would come upon them. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:6: quotation, high confidence - Gen 19:24: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 7:21: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "If he spared ... he will spare you too" is ironic. Sodom: Gen 19; the flood: Gen 7. Souter brackets "already"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-6). ## Ephesians 5:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sharing the sins of the unbelieving means sharing their punishment. ### Latin text Nolite ergo effid partidpes eorum. Si in peccatis iudicium desperantium participes fueritis, eritis et in poena consortes. ### English translation (Claude) "Do not therefore become partakers with them." If you are partakers in the sins of those who despair of judgment, you will also be partners in the punishment. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:7: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-7). ## Ephesians 5:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers, now light, must differ from their past as light from darkness. ### Latin text Eratis [mini] aliquando tenebrae , nunc autem lux in domino . [sic]ut filii lucis ambulate . Quando nesciebatis domini uoluntatem: nunc uero omnia cognouistis. quantum ergo inter lucem distat et tenebras, tantum a pristina conuersatione discrepare debetis. ### English translation (Claude) "For you were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as sons of light." When you did not know the Lord's will; but now you have known all things. As great, then, as the distance between light and darkness, so much must you differ from your former way of life. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "my" and part of a word; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-8). ## Ephesians 5:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowledge bears the fruit of goodness, righteousness, and truth. ### Latin text Namfructus lucis est in omni bonitate et iustitia et ueritate. Talem habet scientia fructum. ### English translation (Claude) "For the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth." Knowledge has such fruit. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:9: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-9). ## Ephesians 5:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: What pleases God is learned from the law, not human claims. ### Latin text Probantes quid sit bene pladtum deo . Ex lege probate quid bene placeat deo, non quid homines adseuerent. ### English translation (Claude) "Proving what is well pleasing to God." Prove from the law what is well pleasing to God, not what men assert. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:10: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-10). ## Ephesians 5:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374–375 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christians must reject and reprove the works of darkness. ### Latin text Et nolite communicare openbus infructuosis tenebrarum. Non prodest quitquit sine scientia fit ueritatis, quia nec lux potest communicare cum tenebris. Magis autem [et] redarguite. Non solum communicare nolite, sed etiam [et] redarguite. ### English translation (Claude) "And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness." Whatever is done without knowledge of the truth is of no profit, because light cannot have fellowship with darkness. "But rather reprove them." Not only refuse fellowship, but reprove them too. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "even" twice; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:374–375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-11). ## Ephesians 5:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The pagans' secret deeds are too shameful to speak of. ### Latin text Quae enim in occuUo Jiunt a nobis . In secretis locis domorum uel [in] templis. Turpe est et[iam ] dicere. Nobis dicere turpe est quae illi uelut in tenebris gerere non erubescunt. ### English translation (Claude) "For the things done by them in secret." In hidden places of houses, or in temples. "It is shameful even to speak of." It is shameful for us to speak of what they are not ashamed to do as if in darkness. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-12). ## Ephesians 5:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Reproof brings hidden sins to light, and the unbeliever who is exposed becomes light by believing. ### Latin text Omnia autem quae [red]arguuntur, a luce manifestantur . Sicut ad Corinthios ait: 'occulta etiam cordis eius manifesta fiunt, et tunc cadens in faciem adorabit deum, pronuntians quod deus uere est in uobis.’ Omne enim quod manifestatur, lux est . Incipit lumen esse, cum credideri[n]t, et uobis adiungitur. ### English translation (Claude) "But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light." As he says to the Corinthians: "the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is truly among you." "For everything that is made manifest is light." He begins to be light when they believe, and he is joined to you. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:13: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 14:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is 1 Cor 14:25. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-13). ## Ephesians 5:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The call to wake is a summons to unbelievers to rise from ignorance and sin. ### Latin text Propter quod didt[ur ]; Surge qui dormis . Quasi uocem alicuius sapientis conscientiam increduli pulsantis inducit [et] de somno ignorantiae excitare cupientis. Et ex[s]urge a mortuis. A peccatis uel [ab] idolis. Et inluminobit tibi Christos. Cum ei credideris, efficieris et ipse lux. ### English translation (Claude) "Wherefore it says: Rise, you who sleep." He brings in, as it were, the voice of some wise man knocking at the conscience of the unbeliever and wishing to rouse him from the sleep of ignorance. "And arise from the dead." From sins or from idols. "And Christ will enlighten you." When you believe in him, you too will become light. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and" and "from"; omitted. The source of Paul's quotation is not identified by Pelagius. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-14). ## Ephesians 5:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers must walk wisely and give no one cause to stumble. ### Latin text Uidete ergo, fratres , quo modo caute ambuletis, non ut in sipientes, sed ut sapientes. Quasi filii sapientiae et lucis, ne alicui offendiculum detis et incipiatis ei causa perditionis exsistere. ### English translation (Claude) "See then, brothers, how you walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise." As sons of wisdom and light, lest you give anyone an occasion of stumbling and begin to be a cause of his perdition. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:15: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-15). ## Ephesians 5:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375–376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Days are evil only because of human wickedness, so believers must use time wisely. ### Latin text Redimentes tempus, Uestra sapientia uel cautela. Quoniam dies mali sunt . Non dies per se mali sunt, sed per homines, sicut locus malus dicitur, in quo aliquit mali committitur. ### English translation (Claude) "Redeeming the time," by your wisdom or caution. "Because the days are evil." The days are not evil in themselves, but through men, as a place is called evil in which some evil is committed. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:16: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:375–376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-16). ## Ephesians 5:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's will is to be learned from the law. ### Latin text Ideo nolite effid inprudentes, sed intellegentes quae sit uoluntas domini. Scrutamini legem, in qua eius uoluntas agnoscitur. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore do not become imprudent, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." Search the law, in which his will is known. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:17: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-17). ## Ephesians 5:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The crucified must avoid drunkenness and be filled with the Spirit. ### Latin text Et nolite inebriari uino , in quo est luxuria , sed imple[a]mini spiritu. Exponit continentiae utilitatem, quia luxuriae materiam adpetere non conuenit cruci fixis, sed spiritu sancto repleri. ### English translation (Claude) "And do not be drunk with wine, in which is luxury, but be filled with the Spirit." He sets out the usefulness of self-restraint, because it is not fitting for those crucified to seek the fuel of luxury, but to be filled with the Holy Spirit. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:18: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-18). ## Ephesians 5:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christians should speak and sing God's words from the heart. ### Latin text Loquentes uobis[met ipsis] [in] psalmis [et] hymnis et canticis spiritaUbus. Non in actibus saeculi, sicut ait propheta: ‘ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum.9 Cantantes et psallentes in cordibus uestris. Ne ore tantum dei uerba resonemus. Domino ### English translation (Claude) "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs." Not about the doings of the world, as the prophet says: "That my mouth may not speak the works of men." "Singing and making melody in your hearts." Lest we sound out God's words with the mouth only. "To the Lord" ### Scripture references - Eph 5:19: quotation, high confidence - Ps 17:4 (16:4 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Ps 17:4 (16:4 LXX). Souter brackets "-selves", "in", and "and"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-19). ## Ephesians 5:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers give thanks in good and evil, as Job did. ### Latin text gratias semper agentes pro omnibus in nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi. Seu bonis seu malis; sicut lob, dicite: ‘sit nomen domini benedictum.9 [Deo et patri] ### English translation (Claude) "always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Whether for good or for evil; like Job, say: "Blessed be the name of the Lord." ### Scripture references - Eph 5:20: quotation, high confidence - Job 1:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Job 1:21. Souter brackets "to God and the Father" at the end of the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-20). ## Ephesians 5:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Mutual submission is to be out of reverence for Christ, not flattery. ### Latin text svbiec[t]i inuicem in timore Christi . Non humano timore uel auaritiae studio, sicut quidam suis patronis adulari consue[ue]runt. ### English translation (Claude) "being subject to one another in the fear of Christ." Not from human fear or eagerness for gain, as some are accustomed to flatter their patrons. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:21: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-21). ## Ephesians 5:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376–377 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul insists on wives' submission because, teaching continence within marriage, he did not want it to dissolve marriages. ### Latin text Mulieres suis uiris subditae sint. Quia non eos, sicut incontinentes Cormthios, lacte alebat, sed perfecto continentiae cibo nutriebat. timet enim ne, cessante in plerisque camis officio, aut in mulieribus subiectio aut in uiris cessaret caritatis affectus, et non tam continentiam quam diuortium docuisse nideretur. ceterum quale est ut nouae uitae praedicator, nulla exsistente causa, hoc doceret quod naturaliter possidebant! Sicut domino. ‘Quo modo Sa[r]ra subdita erat Abrahae, dominum eum uocans/ ### English translation (Claude) "Let wives be subject to their own husbands." Because he was not feeding them with milk, like the incontinent Corinthians, but nourishing them with the perfect food of continence. For he fears that, when the duty of the flesh ceases among many, either subjection in the wives or the affection of love in the husbands might cease, and he might seem to have taught not so much continence as divorce. Otherwise, what sort of thing would it be for a preacher of new life to teach, with no cause existing, what they already possessed by nature! "As to the Lord." "As Sarah was subject to Abraham, calling him lord." ### Scripture references - Eph 5:22: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 3:2: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Pet 3:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius reads Paul's instructions as addressed to spouses who practised continence within marriage; translated exactly. "Milk": 1 Cor 3:2. "As Sarah": 1 Pet 3:6. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:376–377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-22). ## Ephesians 5:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 5:23. ### Latin text Quoniam uir caput est mulieris, sicut est Christus caput ecclesiae, ipse salvator [e$£] corporis [eius]y ### English translation (Claude) "Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, he himself the saviour of the body;" ### Scripture references - Eph 5:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "is" and "his"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-23). ## Ephesians 5:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The husband is first and is to be the protector of both, so the wife is subject. ### Latin text sed ut ecclesia subiecta est Christo , ita et mulieres uiris suis [in] omnibus. Reddit iustam causam subiectionis, quia et prior est uir et utriusque corporis debet esse saluator. ### English translation (Claude) "but as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be to their husbands in all things." He gives a just reason for subjection, because the man is both prior and ought to be the saviour of the body of both. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-24). ## Ephesians 5:25 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-25 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Husbands are to love their wives with a holy love, even to death. ### Latin text Uiri, diligite uxores uestras, sicut [et] Christus dilexit ecclesiam. Tam sancta[ta] et uenerabili caritate. Et se[met] ipsum tradidit pro ea. Ita et uos pro sanctitate uxorum nec mori, si necesse fuerit, recusetis. ### English translation (Claude) "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church." With so holy and venerable a love. "And gave himself up for her." So you too should not refuse to die, if necessary, for the holiness of your wives. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "also" and part of words; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-25). ## Ephesians 5:26 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-26 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As Christ cleansed the church by water and teaching, husbands are to purify their wives by continence and instruction. ### Latin text Ut earn sanctificaret mundans lauacro aquae in uerbo [uitae]. Aqua lauit corpus, animam doctrina mundauit, sicut ait ad Hebraeos: ‘ aspersi corda a conscientia mala, et abluti corpus aqua munda ; ’ ita et uos corpora uxorum continentia, et animas mundate doctrinis. ### English translation (Claude) "That he might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water in the word." Water washed the body, teaching cleansed the soul, as he says to the Hebrews: "having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water"; so you too cleanse your wives' bodies by continence and their souls by teaching. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:26: quotation, high confidence - Heb 10:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Heb 10:22. Souter brackets "of life" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-26). ## Ephesians 5:27 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-27 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377–378 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church is spotless in all members, so the sinful are outside it unless cleansed by repentance. ### Latin text Ut exhiberet ipse sibi gloriosam ecclesiam, non habentem maculam aut rugam aut aliquit eius modi . Ita sibi Christus mundauit ecclesiam, ut antiqua crimina ablueret, et nouas maculas quo modo non incurreremus et uerbo ostenderet et exemplo. Sed ut sit sancta et immaculata . Si omnibus membris immaculata est, maculati ab ea alieni esse censentur, nisi rursus per paenitentiam fuerint expurgati. ### English translation (Claude) "That he might present to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing." So Christ cleansed the church for himself: he washed away the old crimes, and showed both by word and by example how we might not incur new stains. "But that it might be holy and without blemish." If it is without blemish in all its members, the stained are judged to be strangers to it, unless they have again been cleansed through repentance. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:27: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius's view that the church is without blemish in all its members is translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:377–378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-27). ## Ephesians 5:28 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-28 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Husbands are to love their wives as themselves, since the two are one flesh. ### Latin text Ita et uiri debent diligere uxores suas ut corpora sua . Ut quales ipsi cupiunt inueniri, tales exhibeant et uxores. Qui uxorem suam diligit, se ipsum diligit . Quia duo sunt in came una. ### English translation (Claude) "So also husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies." That they may show their wives to be such as they themselves wish to be found. "He who loves his wife loves himself." Because the two are in one flesh. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:28: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-28). ## Ephesians 5:29 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-29 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul does not condemn marriage but urges continence within it. ### Latin text Nemo enim umquam camem suam odio Jiabuit , sed nutrit et fouet earn. [Non] ut [ei] labores et dolores infligat, sed ut securam faciat et quietam. non nuptias quidem damnat, sed ad continentiam cohortatur. Sicut et Christus ecclesiam , ### English translation (Claude) "For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it." Not to inflict labours and pains on it, but to make it secure and peaceful. He does not condemn marriage, but he exhorts to continence. "As Christ also does the church," ### Scripture references - Eph 5:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "not" and "on it" ([Non] ut [ei]); the sense with them is "not to inflict labours"; translated by the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-29). ## Ephesians 5:30 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-30 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As members of Christ, believers should imitate him in all things. ### Latin text qu\ona\m\ membra sumus corporis eius . Membra eius debent eum in omnibus imitari. De came eius et de ossibus eius . Ex omni substantia sumus corporis eius ### English translation (Claude) "because we are members of his body." The members ought to imitate him in all things. "Of his flesh and of his bones." We are of the whole substance of his body. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:30: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-30). ## Ephesians 5:31 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-31 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378–379 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The verse is read as an objection raised by those who want marriage to be carnal. ### Latin text Propter hoc relinquet homo patrem et matrem [suam]. Amore, et si non loco. Et adhaerebit uxori suae , et erunt duo in came una. Obiectio ex persona carnaliter amare [se] uolentium[,ut quibusdam uidetur]. ### English translation (Claude) "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother." In affection, even if not in place. "And will cleave to his wife, and the two will be in one flesh." An objection in the person of those who wish to love carnally. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:31: quotation, high confidence - Gen 2:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Gen 2:24. Souter brackets "his", "themselves", and "as it seems to some"; omitted. Pelagius takes the verse as an objection that Paul answers in 5:32; translated exactly. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:378–379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-31). ## Ephesians 5:32 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-32 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul applies the one-flesh text to Christ and the church, so husbands should love their wives spiritually. ### Latin text Sacramentum hoc magnum esl: ego autem dico in Christo et in ecdesia. Ego hoc, inquit, in Christo inteUegendum dico et in ecclesia; unde uos maiore affectu debetis uxores spiritales diligereet sanctas, qui[a] antea dilexistis peccatrices et ingentilitate camales. ### English translation (Claude) "This mystery is great: but I speak in regard to Christ and the church." I say, he says, that this is to be understood of Christ and the church; hence you ought to love your wives, spiritual and holy, with greater affection, since you formerly loved them as sinners and fleshly in paganism. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:32: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.32 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-32). ## Ephesians 5:33 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/4-1/#p-5-33 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Each husband must love his wife and each wife respect her husband. ### Latin text Uerum tamen [et uos singuli et\ unus quisque suam uxorem sicut se [ipsum\ diligat ; uxor autem ut timeat uirum. Subiecta sit tamquam infirmior, ut regatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Nevertheless let each one love his wife as himself; and let the wife fear her husband." Let her be subject as the weaker, so that she may be guided. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:33: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "you individually and" and "-self"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 5.33 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/5-33). ## Ephesians 6:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Children are to obey parents who raise them for God. ### Latin text FUii, oboedite parentibus uestris \in domino ]. Parat cos disciplinae, qu[i]a illos a parentibus secundum deum praecipit erudin. Hoc est enim iustum. Ut mutuam uicem dilectionis exhibeas. ### English translation (Claude) "Children, obey your parents." He prepares them for discipline, because he commands that they be brought up by their parents according to God. "For this is right." That you may show love in return. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in the Lord" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1). ## Ephesians 6:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Good parents are to be honoured; this is the first commandment of the second table. ### Latin text Honora patrem [tuum\ et matrem. Iubet honorari parentes, sed bonos : ceterum contra deum uiuentes ipse etiam Moses agnosci prohibuit. Quod est mandaium primum. Primum in secunda tabula, quae ad humanitatem pertinentia praecepta [s]ex numero continebat : prima enim tabula proprie diuina officia exigebat. In promissione, ### English translation (Claude) "Honour your father and mother." He commands that parents be honoured, but good ones; for Moses himself forbade the recognition of those who live against God. "Which is the first commandment." First in the second table, which contained six precepts concerning humanity; for the first table properly required the duties toward God. "With a promise," ### Scripture references - Eph 6:2: quotation, high confidence - Exod 20:12: quotation, high confidence - Deut 33:9: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma quotes Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16. Moses forbidding recognition: probably Deut 33:9 or Deut 13:6–10. Souter brackets "your"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-2). ## Ephesians 6:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379–380 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The promised land of long life is the land promised to the meek, not this earth. ### Latin text et bene sit tibiy et longaeuus sis super terrain . Non in hac terra, in qua etiam impii non numquam et in parente[s s]celesti senescunt, sed super illam terram quam dominus mitibus repromittit, et in qua iusti inhabitabunt, et cuius bona psalmista uisurum esse se credit. ### English translation (Claude) "that it may be well with you and you may be long-lived upon the earth." Not in this earth, in which even the wicked sometimes grow old among wicked parents, but upon that earth which the Lord promises to the meek, in which the righteous will dwell, and whose good things the psalmist believes he will see. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:3: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:5: allusion, high confidence - Ps 27:13 (26:13 LXX): allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The meek: Matt 5:5. The psalmist: Ps 27:13 (26:13 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:379–380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-3). ## Ephesians 6:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:380 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fathers must not provoke children but train them in God's law. ### Latin text Et [uos\ patres , nolite ad iraeundiam pronocare jilios uestros, sed edocete iUos in disciplina et [in] correptione domini . Siue: Inmoderate et inrationabiliter uerberando. [Siue :] Ne eos ad saecularia studia prouocantes, iraeundiam di[s]cere faciatis, sed diuinae legis eos instituite disciplinis. talibus ergo parentibus filios praecipit oboedire. ### English translation (Claude) "And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord." Or: by beating them immoderately and unreasonably. Or: lest, by urging them toward worldly studies, you make them learn anger; but train them in the disciplines of the divine law. To such parents, then, he commands children to obey. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "you", "in", and "Or"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-4). ## Ephesians 6:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:380–381 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Slavery comes from captivity, not nature; Christ did not abolish it, and believing slaves are to serve well so as to win their masters. ### Latin text Semi , seruite dominis car[di]nalibus. Non enim uenit Christus condiciones mutare: nam seruitium non natura dedit, sed captiuitas fecit, neque ex maledicto C[h]am[coepit], ut quidam putant, cum ex eo reges [etiam] legamus esse generatos. maledictum uero illut in flliis Cham impletum est, qui Istrahel sunt filiis subiugati. prouidet sane hi[n]c apostolus ne doctrina dei in aliquo blasphemetur, si credentes serai suis dominis inutile[s] fiant, et qui forte permissurus erat [etiamj alios seruos fieri Christianos, de ipsis iam factis incipiat [et] paenitere: si uero indent eos in melius profecisse [et] ex infidelibus fideles effectos, non solum et alios optabit credere famulos suos, sed etiam ipse fortasse saluabitur. Cum timore et tremore in simplidtate cordis uestri. Cum omni oboedientia et festinatione humilitatis, deposita priori superbia et simulatione. Sicut Christo . Christo fit quitquit in eius contemplatione hominibus exhibetur. ### English translation (Claude) "Slaves, be subject to your masters according to the flesh." For Christ did not come to change conditions: for nature did not give servitude, but captivity made it; nor did it begin from the curse of Ham, as some think, since we read that kings were born from him. That curse was fulfilled in the sons of Ham, who were subjected to the sons of Israel. The apostle takes care here that the teaching of God not be blasphemed in any way, if believing slaves become useless to their masters, and that the master, who perhaps was going to allow other slaves to become Christians, may not begin to regret those already made so; but if he sees that they have improved and become faithful from unfaithful, he will not only wish his other servants to believe, but perhaps he himself will be saved. "With fear and trembling in the simplicity of your heart." With all obedience and eagerness of humility, having laid aside former pride and pretence. "As to Christ." Whatever is shown to men for his sake is done to Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:5: quotation, high confidence - Gen 9:25: allusion, high confidence - Josh 9:23: allusion, low confidence - 1 Tim 6:1: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius's statements that servitude comes from captivity, not nature, and that Christ did not come to change conditions, are translated exactly. Ham: Gen 9:25; Canaan's subjection to Israel: Josh 9:23. Souter brackets "began", "also", and "and"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:380–381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-5). ## Ephesians 6:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Slaves are to serve sincerely in all that does not contradict God's will. ### Latin text Non ad oculum seruientes , \nec\ quasi hominibus placeatis. Non praesentibus dominis tantum, quasi ipsis, non deo, placere uolentes. Sed ut serui Christi, fadentes uoluntcUem dei ex animo. In his quae dei non sunt contraria uoluntati: in multis enim concordat cum lege naturaliter animus dominorum, qui[a] seruos et fideles et sobrios et castos et humiles habere desiderant. ### English translation (Claude) "Not serving to the eye, as pleasers of men." Not only when their masters are present, as if wishing to please them and not God. "But as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart." In those things that are not contrary to God's will: for in many things the mind of masters agrees naturally with the law, since they want slaves who are faithful, sober, chaste, and humble. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:6: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-6). ## Ephesians 6:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Slaves should serve gladly, not grumbling. ### Latin text Cum bona uoluntate seruientes , sicut domino , et non hominibus . Non cum murmuratione, [ne] et aput homines gratia et aput deum mercede priuemini. ### English translation (Claude) "Serving with good will, as to the Lord and not to men." Not with grumbling, lest you be deprived both of favour with men and of reward with God. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "lest"; the sense with it is translated. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-7). ## Ephesians 6:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381–382 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God rewards the good done by slave and free alike. ### Latin text Sdentes quod unus quisque [quod]fecerit boni , hoc redpiet a domino , siue seruus due liber. Quitquit propter deum feceris, habes ab ipso mercedem, nec te desperare faciat condicio seruitutis. ### English translation (Claude) "Knowing that whatever good each one does, this he will receive from the Lord, whether slave or free." Whatever you do for God's sake, you have your reward from him, and let your condition of servitude not make you despair. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a repeated "whatever"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:381–382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-8). ## Ephesians 6:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Masters must treat slaves well and forgive them, since both share one Lord and inheritance. ### Latin text Et uos9 domini , eadem facile iUis. Ne, si fugerint, tuae malitiae incipias imputare, non legi. hoc etiam paganus fecisset, [et] si taliter tractaretur praeceptum, et tu audire debes, si illnm uis audire quod iussum est. Remittentes minas9 scientes quod et[iam] uester et ipsorum dominus est in cadis, et personarum non est acceptio aput deum . Minamini propter disciplinary sed remittite propter misericordiam, ut et uobis a[ut] uestro domino remittatur, aput loquem usque adeo unum estis, ut una uobis sit hereditas, [quae] repromissa [est]. ### English translation (Claude) "And you masters, do the same to them." Lest, if they run away, you begin to blame it on your own malice, not on the law. Even a pagan would have done this, if he were treated so: and you too ought to listen, if you want him to listen to what has been commanded. "Forbearing threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with God." Threaten for the sake of discipline, but forgive for the sake of mercy, so that your Lord may also forgive you, with whom you are so much one that there is one inheritance for you, which has been promised. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The first comment is obscure in the text and is translated literally. Souter brackets "and", "also", and "which ... is"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-9). ## Ephesians 6:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul ends with a general exhortation to be strong in the Lord. ### Latin text Be cetero , fratres. Generali epistulam exhortatione concludit. Gonfortamini in domino et in potestate uirtutis eius. In exemplo domini et [in] uirtute. ### English translation (Claude) "Finally, brothers." He concludes the letter with a general exhortation. "Be strengthened in the Lord and in the power of his might." By the Lord's example and power. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:10: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-10). ## Ephesians 6:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Spiritual enemies require spiritual armour. ### Latin text Induite uos arma[tura\ dei, ut possitis stare aduersus astutiam diaboli. Contra spiritales hostes spiritalia arma sumenda sunt, ut dissimilitude naturae armorum fortitudine protegatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Put on the armour of God, so that you may be able to stand against the cunning of the devil." Against spiritual enemies spiritual arms must be taken up, so that the difference of nature may be covered by the strength of the arms. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:11: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-11). ## Ephesians 6:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382–383 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Christian's struggle is against demonic powers ruling through ignorance and sin. ### Latin text Qu[on]ia[m] non est uobis colluctatio aduersus camem et sanguinem . Caro et sanguis homo dicitur. Sed aduersus prindpes et potestates. Qui sibi principatum in huius mundi homines usurp arunt, et qui ignorantes [homines] animas per peccata seducunt. Aduersus mundi [huius] reetores tenebrarum harum. [Contra daemonum potestatem, qui sibi in homines mundi huius principatuin uindicantes, ignorantiae erroribus praesunt, qui tenebris comparantur, sicut ipse ait:] ‘fuistis enim [aliquando] tenebrae, nunc autem lux in domino/ Contra spiritalia nequitiae. Sunt enim spiritales bonitates. In caelestibus. In acre, ubi uolucres caeli appellantur. ### English translation (Claude) "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood." Man is called flesh and blood. "But against principalities and powers." Who have usurped dominion over the men of this world, and who seduce ignorant souls through sins. "Against the rulers of the world of this darkness." "For you were once darkness, but now light in the Lord." "Against the spiritual forces of wickedness." For there are also spiritual forces of goodness. "In the heavenly places." In the air, where the birds are called "of heaven." ### Scripture references - Eph 6:12: quotation, high confidence - Eph 5:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a sentence ("Against the power of demons, who, claiming dominion over men of this world, rule over the errors of ignorance, which are compared to darkness, as he himself says:") and "once", "this", "men"; omitted. The quotation is Eph 5:8. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:382–383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-12). ## Ephesians 6:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:383 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers must take God's armour and be perfect in everything. ### Latin text Prop terea accipite arma[turam] dez. Qui[a] tales habetis inimicos. Ut possitis resistere m die malo. Non sibi malus est dies, sed nobis, quando impugnamur a malo. Et in omnibus perfecti stetis. Non in aliquantis perfectum uult [esse] hominem: sed et hoc notandum, quod omnes ad perfectionem hortatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore take up the armour of God." Because you have such enemies. "That you may be able to resist in the evil day." The day is not evil to itself, but to us, when we are attacked by the evil one. "And stand perfect in all things." He wants man to be perfect not in some things only; but this too should be noted, that he exhorts all to perfection. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "be"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-13). ## Ephesians 6:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:383–384 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Truth and righteousness, made of many virtues, are the soldier's belt and breastplate. ### Latin text State ergo succincti lumbos uestros . Perfecte state, lumbis mentis accincti: hoc est, in omni proelio uiriliter praeparati et ab omnibus c[r]uris saeculi expediti. In ueritate. Non in [h]ypocrisi: nemo enim ‘ coronatur nisi legitime certauerit.’ Et induti lorica iustitiae. Sicut lorica multis circulis uel armilhs intexitur, ita [et] iustitia diuersis uirtutum conectitur speciebus: munit autem non solum pectoris conscientiam, sed et uentris continentiam, nec non et ad femorum usque pertingit libidinem co[h]erce[n]dam, ### English translation (Claude) "Stand therefore, having your loins girded." Stand perfectly, with the loins of the mind girded: that is, prepared manfully for every battle and free from all the cares of the world. "In truth." Not in hypocrisy; for no one "is crowned unless he has competed lawfully." "And having put on the breastplate of righteousness." As a breastplate is woven of many rings or links, so righteousness is joined from different kinds of virtues; and it guards not only the conscience of the breast but also the continence of the belly, and it reaches even to restraining the lust of the thighs. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:14: quotation, high confidence - 2 Tim 2:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is 2 Tim 2:5. Souter brackets "and"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:383–384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-14). ## Ephesians 6:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The gospel is to be preached boldly. ### Latin text Et calciati pedes in preparations euangelii pads . Cum fiducia incedentes intrepide praedicate. ### English translation (Claude) "And having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Advancing fearlessly with confidence, preach. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:15: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-15). ## Ephesians 6:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Faith is the shield without which the other virtues cannot save. ### Latin text In omnibus sumentes scutum fidei, in quo possitis omnia tela maligni [igned] extinguere. In omnibus certaminibus fide[i] muniamur, quia scutum ipsorum quoque armorum defensio est, et sine hoc omnia armatus inermis est, ita et hae uirtutes sine fide saluare non possunt: nam sicut scutum omnia iniecta repellit et recut[it, it]a et fides omnes diaboli persuasiones excludit, quamuis quasi lumen rationis habere nideantur. ### English translation (Claude) "Taking up in all things the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the darts of the evil one." Let us be protected by faith in all battles, because the shield is the defence of the arms themselves, and without it a man fully armed is unarmed; so these virtues too cannot save without faith. For as the shield repels and beats back everything thrown at it, so faith shuts out all the persuasions of the devil, though they seem to have a kind of light of reason. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "fiery" in the lemma; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-16). ## Ephesians 6:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Without the word of God, the sword, every virtue is defenceless. ### Latin text Et galeam salutis [ad]sumite. Quae omnes capitis sensus a prauis ofiiciis protegat et abscondat. Et gladium spiritus , quod est uerbum dei . Nemo militum aude[a]t ad bellum sine gladio proficisci: se enim utcumque tueri potest, sed [ad] hostem non ualet occidere, non numquam etiam ab audaci inimico omnibus armis spoliatus perimitur: ita sine dei uerbo iustitia omnis intuta est. ### English translation (Claude) "And take the helmet of salvation." Which protects all the senses of the head from evil uses and hides them. "And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." No soldier dares to go to war without a sword: for he can protect himself somehow, but he cannot kill the enemy, and sometimes he is even stripped of all his arms and slain by a bold enemy; so without the word of God all righteousness is unprotected. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:17: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-17). ## Ephesians 6:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384–385 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Prayer must be constant, attentive, and offered by the holy for the holy. ### Latin text Per omnem orationem et obsecrationem . Semper hunc gladium postulate. Orantes omni tempore in spiritu . ‘Non impediaris orare semper/ et pro rebus spiritalibus depr[a]ecare. Et in ipso uigilantes [semper] [in omni instantia et obsecra tione]. Nihil [enim] prodest dormientis more iacente[m] corpore animo peruagari, dum hac uanitate nec ab homine possit aliquit impetrari. Pro omnibus sanctis . Sancti estote, ut possitis orare pro sanctis. ### English translation (Claude) "Through all prayer and supplication." Always ask for this sword. "Praying at all times in the Spirit." "Do not be hindered from praying always," and pray for spiritual things. "And watching in it." For it profits nothing to let the mind wander, like a sleeper, while the body lies still, since with such vanity nothing could be obtained even from a man. "For all the saints." Be saints, so that you may be able to pray for the saints. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:18: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Sir 18:22 (Sirach): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Sir 18:22. Souter brackets "always", "in all perseverance and supplication", and "for"; omitted. Leaked apparatus was removed from the text. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:384–385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-18). ## Ephesians 6:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul asks prayer for boldness to proclaim the union of Jews and Gentiles in Christ. ### Latin text Et pro me, ut detur mihi serum in apertione[m\ oris mei in confidentia notumjacere mysterium euangelii. Et abundanter et sine metu persecution uel odii Iudaeorum exponam uniti in Christo populi rationem. ### English translation (Claude) "And for me, that speech may be given me in the opening of my mouth, with boldness to make known the mystery of the gospel." That I may set forth abundantly and without fear of persecution or of the hatred of the Jews the reason of the people united in Christ. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:19: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-19). ## Ephesians 6:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Ambassadors of the word suffer, but the word itself cannot be bound. ### Latin text Pro quo legatione fungor m cat[h]ena ita ut in ipso audeam [pro]ut oportet me loqui. Omnes enim uerbi legatos talia sine dubio necesse est sustinere, sed uerbum dei non potest alligari: tunc enim maior fiducia erit, si[c] rationabiliter dicatur, et sit abundantia quae exprimat rationem. ### English translation (Claude) "For which I am an ambassador in chains, so that in it I may dare to speak as I ought." For all ambassadors of the word must without doubt endure such things, but the word of God cannot be bound: for then there will be greater confidence, if it is spoken reasonably and there is abundance to express the reason. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:20: quotation, high confidence - 2 Tim 2:9: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "The word of God is not bound": 2 Tim 2:9. Souter brackets "as" ([pro]ut) and a letter; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-20). ## Ephesians 6:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of Eph 6:21. ### Latin text Ut autem et uos sciatis quae circa me sunty quid agam, notum uobis faciet omnia [s]Tychicusy dilectissimus f rater [9et fidelis minister in domino , ### English translation (Claude) "But that you also may know my affairs, what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother, will make all things known to you," ### Scripture references - Eph 6:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and faithful minister in the Lord" in this lemma and the following one; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-21). ## Ephesians 6:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385–386 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul sends Tychicus so that his readers will not lose heart. ### Latin text quern misi ad uos in hoc ipsum ut cognoscatis quae drca nos sunt , e£ consoletur corda uestra ]. Sollicite agit, non solum ut proficiant, sed etiam ne in tribulationibus [eius] deficiant, uel [ne] in aliquo contristentur. ### English translation (Claude) "whom I have sent to you for this very purpose." He acts with care, not only that they may make progress, but also that they may not lose heart at his tribulations, or be saddened in anything. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "that you may know our affairs and he may comfort your hearts" in the lemma, and "his" and "lest"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:385–386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-22). ## Ephesians 6:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:386 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Peace, love, and faith together make the perfect Christian. ### Latin text Pax fratribus et caritas cum fide [a domino patre et Christo Iesu ]. Pax et caritas et fides perfectum faciunt Christianum: tam enim sine fide infructuosa est caritas, quam fides sine caritate uel pace, [nam] caritas maior est pace: potest enim odio non haberi quis, non tamen et amari. ### English translation (Claude) "Peace to the brothers and love with faith." Peace and love and faith make a perfect Christian: for love without faith is as unfruitful as faith without love or peace; love is greater than peace, for one can be not hated and yet not loved. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "from God the Father and Christ Jesus" in the lemma, and "for"; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-23). ## Ephesians 6:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-1/#p-6-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:386 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Grace is for those who love Christ with undivided love. ### Latin text Gratia cum omnibus qui diligunt dominum nostrum lesum Christum [in] incorruptione. Siue: Castita[ti]s. Siue: In quorum corde nullo adulterino Baecul[ar]i amore Christi dilect[at]io uiolatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption." Or: of chastity. Or: in whose heart the love of Christ is not violated by any adulterous worldly love. ### Scripture references - Eph 6:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in" and parts of words; omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. Eph. 6.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-ephesios/6-24).