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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
But further, is not their religion of this sort, wood and stone? He hath made the sun to shine for a lamp to light us. Who will worship his own lamp? The sun supplies us with light, but where he cannot, a lamp can do it. Then why not worship thy lamp? "Nay," one will say, "I worship the fire." Oh, how ridiculous! So great is the absurdity, and yet look again at another absurdity. Why extinguish the object of thy worship? Why destroy, why annihilate thy god? Wherefore dost thou not suffer thy house to be filled with him? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
It is proper for a teacher not only to exhort, but also to instill fear, showing that God Himself stands before His disciples, as Paul does here. "I adjure," he says, you "by the Lord," that is, I call the Lord as witness that I have not hidden from you what needed to be said. And he did not say: do not live as you live, so as not to wound them, but: "as the other nations walk," correcting them by the example of others. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
The Apostle previously admonished the Ephesians to persevere in ecclesial unity by describing to them its quality and pattern (4:1). In the part that follows he teaches them the way to remain within the Church's unity. First, he gives them precepts by which they can remain in ecclesial unity. First, he sets down precepts for everyone. First, he expresses certain general precepts to which all the others can be reduced. …
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