Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsEphesians 2
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Ephesians 2 in the BibleEphesians 2:20
Built upon the foundation.
◦ Note against the Heretics that think it dishonorable to Christ, to attribute his titles or callings to mortal men, that the faithful (though builded first, principally, and properly upon Christ) yet are said here to be built also upon the Apostles and Prophets. Why may not the Church then be builded upon Peter?
- ◦ The Church builded upon Christ, and yet upon the Apostles also.
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Ephesians 2:8
By grace you are saved through faith.
◦ Our first justification is of God's grace, and not of our deservings: because none of all our actions that were before our justification, could merit or justly procure the grace of justification. Again, he saith, through faith: for that faith is the beginning, foundation, and root of all justification, and the first of all other virtues, without which it is impossible to please God.