With Maximus’ citations from Ephesians then we are reminded that all that he has been saying about the relation of soul to body and parts to the whole—while steeped in the theological and technical vocabulary of Neoplatonist metaphysics and Aristotelian logic—stems ultimately from his reflections on the scriptural witness to the Church as the body of Christ. It is as he develops this meditation further that we encounter yet another interpretation of the phrase ‘a portion of God’. The soul—body relation