Ephesians 5:3-21 NIV

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:5

5. For A deep and solemn reason for these prohibitions. Ye know However ignorant and forgetful the Gentiles may be, ye know. That no The same triad of vile transgressors as in Ephesians 5:3: the debauchee, the shameless, the business knave. An idolater Who worships the round, molten image, the dollar, as his god. Note on Matthew 6:24, and Colossians 3:5. It belongs to St. Paul’s self-sacrificing nature, as Meyer finely remarks, to condemn gain-greed as the most shameful ungodliness. ... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:6

6. No man deceive you Among the heathens, courtezans were priestesses, and prostitution was consecrated as a religious rite. The Ephesian Christians would every day encounter sophists arguing against and ridiculing the rigorism of personal chastity, and representing licentiousness as a venial matter, and even a sacred institution. Vain words Empty words: empty of truth and value. For Very dangerous it is, indeed, to be so deceived. Wrath… disobedience Words that remind us of Ephesians... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:7

7. Be Rather, become. Note, Ephesians 4:32. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8

8. Ye were While Gentiles. Now are ye light Not as illuminated, but as luminous and illuminating. So our Saviour: “Ye are the light of the world.” Children of light In the whole paragraph there is a blending of the double thought of moral and physical light. So our Lord: “Let your light so shine, that men may see your good works.” The children of light are those who are not only the true sons of moral illumination, but are so congenial with the actual light of day that the sun may... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8-17

b. Against their secret and nightly shame be children of light and day, Ephesians 5:8-17 . As the darkness of night is the element in which license and guilt find their covert, so by association of thought license and darkness are conceptually identified; while, on the contrary, truth and purity, as well as knowledge, are conceptually identified with light. These associations of thought are universal in the human mind and in human language. Zoroastrianism makes light and darkness the emblem... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:9

9. Fruit… Spirit A better reading substitutes light for Spirit. The graces produced by the power of the true Christian light, namely, goodness, opposed to all the sins of appetite and lust; righteousness, to all unjust and dishonest dealing to men; and truth, to all insincerity, and falseness to God or man. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:10

10. Proving That is, testing by actual and practical trial and experience. Acceptable By finding the witness of the divine Spirit approving our course. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:11

11. Fellowship St. Paul’s ordinary word for Christian communion; as 1 Corinthians 1:9, “fellowship of his Son;” and 1 Corinthians 10:16, “communion of his blood.” It implies a collection of participants into a common element. Hence here, enter not into associations that share in the unfruitful works. There is, as commentators well remark, no specific allusion to the heathen “mysteries,” but the words include both them and all associations and clans of revellers in dark and hidden... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:12

12. For To give a reason why this utter exposure should be the aim of our moral life. Shame even to speak To pronounce the indecent words that express their deeds sullies the purity of the mind. And this fully decides that the entire paragraph hints at almost unmentionable sins of the flesh. In secret In moral darkness, covered by the shades of physical darkness a deep night darkening upon a deeper night. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:13

13. But The reverse of this dark concealment. All things, including those lurking depravities that are reproved, that is, truly detected by you, who are truly the light, are made manifest in their true enormity of character. For whatsoever doth make manifest More correctly, whatsoever is made manifest, is no longer a lurking obscurity, a darkness, but it becomes in truth a light. On which difficult passage we may note: 1 . Scholars are now mostly agreed that the Greek word for ... read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:6

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:7

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8-17

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:9

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:10

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:11

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:12

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:13

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