having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;

in whom every building having been fitly framed together, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

(Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;