Paulus Apostolus Jesu Christi per voluntatem Dei, omnibus sanctis qui sunt Ephesi, et fidelibus in Christo Jesu. Gratia vobis, et pax a Deo Patre nostro, et Domino Jesu Christo. Benedictus Deus et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui benedixit nos in omni benedictione spirituali in cælestibus in Christo, sicut elegit nos in ipso ante mundi constitutionem, ut essemus sancti et immaculati in conspectu ejus in caritate. Qui prædestinavit nos in adoptionem filiorum per Jesum Christum in ipsum: secundum propositum voluntatis suæ, in laudem gloriæ gratiæ suæ, in qua gratificavit nos in dilecto Filio suo. In quo habemus redemptionem per sanguinem ejus, remissionem peccatorum secundum divitias gratiæ ejus, quæ superabundavit in nobis in omni sapientia et prudentia: ut notum faceret nobis sacramentum voluntatis suæ, secundum beneplacitum ejus, quod proposuit in eo, in dispensatione plenitudinis temporum, instaurare omnia in Christo, quæ in cælis et quæ in terra sunt, in ipso; in quo etiam et nos sorte vocati sumus prædestinati secundum propositum ejus qui operatur omnia secundum consilium voluntatis suæ: ut simus in laudem gloriæ ejus nos, qui ante speravimus in Christo; in quo et vos, cum audissetis verbum veritatis, Evangelium salutis vestræ, in quo et credentes signati estis Spiritu promissionis Sancto, qui est pignus hæreditatis nostræ, in redemptionem acquisitionis, in laudem gloriæ ipsius. Propterea et ego audiens fidem vestram, quæ est in Domino Jesu, et dilectionem in omnes sanctos, non cesso gratias agens pro vobis, memoriam vestri faciens in orationibus meis: ut Deus Domini nostri Jesu Christi, Pater gloriæ, det vobis spiritum sapientiæ et revelationis in agnitione ejus, illuminatos oculos cordis vestri, ut sciatis quæ sit spes vocationis ejus, et quæ divitiæ gloriæ hæreditatis ejus in sanctis, et quæ sit supereminens magnitudo virtutis ejus in nos, qui credimus secundum operationem potentiæ virtutis ejus, quam operatus est in Christo, suscitans illum a mortuis, et constituens ad dexteram suam in cælestibus: supra omnem principatum, et potestatem, et virtutem, et dominationem, et omne nomen, quod nominatur non solum in hoc sæculo, sed etiam in futuro. Et omnia subjecit sub pedibus ejus: et ipsum dedit caput supra omnem ecclesiam, quæ est corpus ipsius, et plenitudo ejus, qui omnia in omnibus adimpletur.
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