Ephesians 4:7-18 KJV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:17

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord; I beseech or adjure you by the Lord: see the like, Romans 12:1; Philippians 2:1. That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; their minds themselves, and understandings, the highest and noblest faculties in them, being conversant about things empty, transient, and unprofitable, and which deceive their expectations, and therefore vain, viz. their idols, their worldly enjoyments, &c. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:18

Having the understanding; the mind as reasoning and discoursing, and so their ratiocinations and discourses themselves. Darkened; as to spiritual things. Being alienated from the life of God; not only strangers to it, (for so are those creatures which are not capable of it), but estranged from it; implying, that in Adam originally they were not so. The life of God; a spiritual life; that life which God commands, and approves, and whereby God lives in believers, and they live in him, Galatians... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:7-12

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:7. But unto every one of us is given grace.—The distributing Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:11) leaves no humblest member of the body of Christ without his endowment.Ephesians 4:8. Wherefore He saith.—What follows is a quotation of Psalms 68:18 “with free alteration” (Meyer), adapting the return of the hero-king to his own city to that most magnificent of all triumphs—over Hades and Death—achieved by Him “who was dead and is alive for evermore.” “Being by the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:13-16

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:13. Till we all come.—Suggestive of standing opposite to something towards which we have been toiling. Can one think without a tremor of joy, of the moment when he will find himself in perfect correspondence with the divine Archetype? In the unity of the faith.—The world has seen many attempts to bring about uniformity of creed, after the manner of Procrustes, by stretching or chopping. “The unity of the faith” is a very different thing, and much to be... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:17. That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk.—In this and the two following verses we have again the lurid picture of Ephesians 2:2-3 : “in the vanity of their mind.”“The creature is their sole delight,Their happiness the things of earth.”Ephesians 4:18. Having the understanding darkened.—Remembering our Lord’s saying about the single eye and the fully illuminated body we might say, “If the understanding—by which all light should come—be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:7-16

Ephesians 4:7-16 The Church Edified and Edifying Itself. I. There are various outward appliances all meant for the edifying of the body of Christ. These may be regarded as comprehending generally all the spiritual instrumentalities and gifts brought to bear upon the Church and its members from without and from above. For the Apostle is not here laying down the platform of Church government, or determining formally and authoritatively what offices had been or were to be owned and sanctioned in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:8

Ephesians 4:8 , Ephesians 4:11 A Glorious Ascension. To ascend on high must have meant for Christ a large increase of His quickening influence, more power to act beneficially on human minds and hearts, to purify and energise, to inspire and elevate, as hitherto He had not been able. That was His supreme ambition, the height for which He sighed; and was it not even thus that He went up gloriously at last from the cross and the grave, mounting from thence to be a greater saving and subliming... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:8-16

Ephesians 4:8-16 The Origin of the Christian Clergy. No doubt from the first the Christian society which we now call a Church existed in Christ's faithful followers, even from the beginning, and wheresoever, in any time or country, two or three were gathered together by the communion of love or faith, they also would be a Christian Church, and even for years after our Lord's departure such a society existed without the separate order of clergy. I. Yet there was a sense in which the Christian... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:9-10

Ephesians 4:9-10 Consider: I. The ascension of Christ in the light of its previous and preparatory history. That the Son of man ascended from the deepest depth of human history and experience, from the lower parts of the earth, up above all heavens, presupposes His descent. In His descent He became the hidden presence and controlling power of the world's history until the old world passed away in His death and the new world rose in His resurrection. II. The Ascension in the light of its... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:10

Ephesians 4:10 Christ Filling all Things. I. Let us understand, first, how Christ fills all things, not with His body, for, as it has been well said, "Christ's body may be anywhere at any time; but Christ's Spirit is everywhere at all times." Of that body of Christ, of spiritual body at all, still more of spiritual body glorified, we know, and we can know, nothing; but as far as our faculties can reach, body must occupy definite space. How then does Christ fill all things? (1) By His influence.... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:18

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:7-12

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:13-16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:7-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:8-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:9-10

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:10

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