Ephesians 5:18-30 NIV

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:20

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Ver. 20. Giving thanks always ] In our deepest miseries let us sing cheerfully, as Paul and Silas in the dungeon, as Philpot and his fellows in the coal house, as many martyrs in the flames, as Luther did in a great conflict with the devil: Venite, said he to his company, in contemptum diaboli Psalmum de profundis quatuor vocibus cantemus: Let us sing the 130th Psalm in despite of the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:21

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ver. 21. Submitting yourselves ] This is a general admonition to all inferiors, whose duties are afterwards described. Thus in the second table of the law, the fifth commandment for order and obedience is fitly premised to the following precepts. In the fear of God ] This frameth the heart to a ready and regular submission. Hence that saying of Luther, Primo praecepto reliquorum omnium observantia praecipitur, The first... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:22

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Ver. 22. Wives, submit, &c. ] This includes reverence, obedience, &c. God hath scattered the duties of husbands and wives up and down the Scriptures, that they may search, and by learning to be good husbands and wives, they may learn also to be good men and women. As unto the Lord ] Who taketh himself dishonoured by wives’ disobedience. And though husbands may remit the offence done to them, yet they cannot remit... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:23

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Ver. 23. For the husband is the head ] And would it not be ill-favoured to see the shoulders above the head? read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:24

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Ver. 24. Therefore as the Church ] Denying herself to please Christ, making his will her law. In everything ] In all her husband’s lawful commands and restraints. A wife should have no will of her own, but submit to her husband’s; albeit there are those who merrily say that when man lost freewill, woman took it up. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:25

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Ver. 25. Husbands, love your wives ] He saith not, rule over them (in answer to submit, Eph 5:22 ), for this they can readily do without bidding; but love your wives, and so make their yoke as easy as may be. Columbae trahunt currum Veneris. Doves draw the charriot of Venus. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:26

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Ver. 26. That he might sanctify ] The maids were first purified and perfumed before Ahasuerus chose one. But here it is otherwise. Sanctification is a fruit of justification. The Lord will not have a sluttish Church, and therefore he came not by blood only, but by water also, that clean water of his Spirit, whereby he washeth away the swinish nature of his saints, so that they desire no more to wallow in the mire. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:27

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Ver. 27. That he might present ] As Isaac did his Rebecca, adorned with his jewels. See Ezekiel 16:14 . Tales nos amat Deus, quales futuri sumus ipsius done, non quales sumus nostro merito, saith an ancient Council. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:28

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Ver. 28. As their own bodies ] No man may hide himself from his own flesh at large, Isaiah 58:7 , that is, from his neighbour of the same stock; much less from a wife, which is such another as himself, Genesis 2:18 , nay, his very self, as here. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:29

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: Ver. 29. For no man ever hated ] No man but a monk, who whips himself, or a mad man, Mark 5:5 , who cuts himself. It was the saying of the Emperor Aurelius, a wife is to be often admonished, sometimes reproved, but never beaten. And yet of the Russian women it is reported, that they love that husband best that beats them most, and that they think themselves else not regarded, unless two... read more

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:20

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:21

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:22

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:23

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:24

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:25

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:26

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:27

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:28

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:29

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