having destroyed the law of commandments in ordinances, through his flesh, the enmity, in order that He might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

in whom the entire edifice, being assimilated, increases into a holy temple in the Lord;

in whom also you are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

But what is that which ascended, except that which descended into the lower parts of the earth?

until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ: