DORET: "By the church he means the whole community of the faithful. This he calls the body of Christ and the fullness of the Father. This body he has filled with all gifts. He lives in it and goes about in it,* as the voice of prophecy says. But this will be more strictly so in the future life....In the present life God is in all, since his nature is uncircumscribed; but he is not all in all,* since some are impious and some lawless. Yet he lives in those who fear him and who put hope in his mercy. In the next life at any rate, when mortality has ceased and immortality is conferred and sin has no place any longer, he will be all in all."
* Lev 26.11,12
* 1 Cor 15:28
from 'Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture', Vol 8.
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