Efesios 4:17

2. To be a Church in double contrast to the anti-Church of Gentilism, Ephesians 4:17 to Ephesians 5:21.

First Contrast Sins of the spirit, Ephesians 4:17 to Ephesians 5:3.

a. In contrast with the Gentilism which you have left, Ephesians 4:17-19 .

17. I say… and testify I declare and protest.

Therefore In view of your being the model Church described in the last paragraph. Other is omitted by the best readings. Thereby the apostle, by a new antithesis, holds his converts as not now Gentiles but Christians.

Walk Note, Ephesians 4:1. This outward walk springs from internal pravation, located by St. Paul in mind, understanding, inner life, and heart.

Mind Νους , equivalent to the spirit the high intuitive faculty, the intellect in its ethical sphere, in which the theory of religion and the sense of conscientious morality dwell. Here should be the divine residence of eternal truth, God, Christ, and holiness. But with these Gentiles here is only vanity, which was a common Hebrew term for idolatry; and here with St. Paul it is a name for all the utter worthlessness of the apostate antitheism of Gentilism. And in this vanity of their highest region of intuition they walked. From that region was shed a haze and a darkness over the ground they walked.