Ephesians 4:1-32

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you with all malice.Such conditions of the inward life as that indicated by the prohibitions listed here are the bane of earthly existence. What incredible waste and loss of all that is precious flow out of the undisciplined lives of unregenerated people; and, tragic as that is, it must be held even more deplorable that many Christians have never learned to live above the behavior Paul proscribed in this... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 4:32

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.These are the opposites of the things forbidden in Ephesians 4:31.Kind one to another ... Nothing blesses mankind any more than ordinary kindness, which is not in any sense ordinary, but the most extraordinary endowment that any Christian possesses.Tenderhearted ... How much at variance with the pagan cultures of antiquity was this Christian virtue is pointed out by MacKnight thus:This... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:1

Ephesians 4:1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord, &c.— St. Paul having concluded the special part of his Epistle with the foregoing chapter, comes in this, as his manner is, to practical exhortations. He begins with unity, love, and concord, which he presses upon them from a consideration which he makes use of in more of his Epistles than one; that is, their being all members of one and the same body, whereof Christ is the head. Some have observed of this Epistle, and of the others which... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:2

Ephesians 4:2. With long-suffering,— As there is no copulative between meekness and long-suffering, it seems most natural to connect the latter with the following clause, with longsuffering forbearing one another in love. And if the exhortation be thus rendered, it will prevent the solecism, which would arise from connecting the word forbearing (ανεχομενοι ) with υμας, ye, in the verse before; to which we should be led, by our translation. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:6

Ephesians 4:6. One God and Father of all, &c.— Though God may be stiled the Father of all things universally, who is above, through, and in them all, as he created and upholds them, and has supreme dominion over them: and as in him we live, and move, and have our being; yet the father of all, &c. in this place, evidently means something more peculiar and distinguishing, withspecial relation to all his believing people, and to his gracious operation in them: for this best suits the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:7

Ephesians 4:7. Is given grace, &c.— That their differing in some respects, though united in so many, might not be urged as a plea for self-esteem, or neglect of others who wanted such advantages, the Apostle insists upon it, that all is communicated to us in the way of free gift and unmerited liberality. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:9-10

Ephesians 4:9-10. (Now, that he ascended, &c.— St. Paul's argumentation in these two verses is skilfully adapted to the main design of his Epistle. The convert Gentiles were attacked by the unconverted Jews, who were declared enemies to the thoughts of a Messiah who should die. St. Paul, to enervate that objection, proves, by a passage out of the Psalms, (Ephesians 4:8.) that he must die, and be buried. Besides the unbelieving Jews, several of those who were converted to the gospel, or at... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:12

Ephesians 4:12. For the persecuting of the saints,— For the fitting out holy persons,—to the edifying, &c. Blackwall. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:13

Ephesians 4:13. Till we all come, &c.— "Till all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, that are faithful members of this mystical body of Christ (including those who now do, and hereafter shall perseveringly believe, in successive generations to the end of the world,) shall meet, and be cemented together in an entire agreement about the doctrines of faith, in the sweetest harmony, union,and oneness, by means of the same faith in Christ; and of a clear, affectionate, and fiducial knowledge, and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:14

Ephesians 4:14. By the sleight of men, &c.— The word κυβεια, rendered sleight, properly signifies the artifice of those infamous gamesters, who know how to cog the dice. The next clause may be rendered, and subtlety in every method of deceit. Some render it, and cunning craftiness, as to the art, or method of deceit. The word rendered cunning craftiness, implies all the various degrees of subtlety, dissimulation, and insidiousness, by which men endeavour to deceive. It is to be hoped that... read more

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