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Ephesians 6
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Children and Parents
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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<strong>[Verse 6:1 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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**VI.**
(4* b*.) In Ephesians 6:1-4. St. Paul passes from the detailed exposition of the true relation of husbands and wives, to deal with the relation of parents and children, far more cursorily and simply, but under the light of the same idea. It is to be thought of as existing “in the Lord,” *i.e., *within the unity binding all to Christ, in virtue of which the parental authority and the right ...
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30. Ge 21:10, 12, where Sarah's words are, "shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." But what was there said literally, is here by inspiration expressed in its allegorical spiritual import, applying to the New Testament believer, who is antitypically "the son of the free woman." In Joh 8:35, 36, Jesus refers to this.
**Cast out--**from the house and inheritance: literally, Ishmael; spiri...
Read full commentary →Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
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<strong>[Verse 6:2 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(2) **The first commandment with promise.**—It is, indeed, in the Decalogue “the only commandment with promise” distinctly attached to it. But it is still the first; the Decalogue being itself the introduction to the Law, in which similar promises are repeated again and again.
(2) (18) **Praying always with all prayer and Supplication.**—In this verse the metaphor gives place to direct exhortation...
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**31. So then--**The oldest manuscripts read, "Wherefore." This is the conclusion inferred from what precedes. In Ga 3:29 and Ga 4:7, it was established that we, New Testament believers, are "heirs." If, then, we are heirs, "we are not children of the bond woman (whose son, according to Scripture, was 'not to be heir,' Ga 4:30), but of the free woman (whose son was, according to Scripture, to be h...
Read full commentary →That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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<strong>[Verse 6:3 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(3) **That it may be well with thee . . .**—The quotation is but slightly varied from Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16. But by the omission of the limiting words, “which the Lord thy God hath given thee,” St. Paul at once generalises the application and determines it to the earth, and not to “the good land” of heaven. The words so interpreted are, therefore, a promise that obedience “in the Lord” to...
Read full commentary →And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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<strong>[Verse 6:4 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(4) **Provoke not your children to wrath.**—The word is the same as in Ephesians 4:26. It denotes the exasperation produced by arbitrary and unsympathetic rule.
**Nurture and admonition of the Lord.**—In this phrase we have the two elements of education. “Nurture” is a word signifying generally “the treatment due to a child,” but by usage appropriated to practical training, or teaching by discipli...
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CHAPTER 5 Ga 5:1-26. Peroration. Exhortation to Stand Fast in the Gospel Liberty, Just Set Forth, and Not to Be Led by Judaizers into Circumcision, or Law Justification: Yet though Free, to Serve One Another by Love: To Walk in the Spirit, Bearing the Fruit Thereof, Not in the Works of the Flesh.
1. The oldest manuscripts read, "in liberty (so Alford, Moberley, Humphry, and Ellicott. But as there...
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Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
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<strong>[Verse 6:5 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(4 *c.*) In Ephesians 6:5-9 the hardest form of subjection, that of slaves to masters, is dealt with, still under the same idea that both are “in Christ.” The slave is the servant of Christ in obeying his master, the master is a fellow-servant with his slave to the same Divine Lord. We notice on this particular subject a remarkable emphasis, and a singular closeness of parallelism between this Epi...
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**2. Behold--**that is, Mark what I say.
**I Paul--**Though you now think less of my authority, I nevertheless give my name and personal authority as enough by itself to refute all opposition of adversaries.
**if ye be circumcised--**not as Alford, "If you will go on being circumcised." Rather, "If ye suffer yourselves to be circumcised," namely, under the notion of its being necessary to just...
Read full commentary →Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
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<strong>[Verse 6:6 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(6) **Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers.**—This verse is merely an expansion of the idea of singleness of heart. The word “eyeservice” (used here, and in Colossians 3:22) is peculiar to St. Paul, and to these passages; the word “menpleasers” is not found elsewhere in the New Testament, but is used in the LXX.; and the antithesis of “pleasing men” and “pleasing God “is not unfrequent with St. Pau...
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**3. For--**Greek, "Yea, more"; "Moreover."
**I testify ... to every man--**as well as "unto you" (Ga 5:2).
**that is circumcised--**that submits to be circumcised. Such a one became a "proselyte of righteousness."
**the whole law--**impossible for man to keep even in part, much less wholly (Jas 2:10); yet none can be justified by the law, unless he keep it wholly (Ga 3:10).
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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<strong>[Verse 6:7 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(7) **With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.**—Here we ascend to a still higher quality than “singleness of heart.” To do service “with good will,” that is, gladly and cheerfully, “counting it joy to spend and to be spent” in the service, is really to serve, not as a slave, but as a freeman. Only so far as in the relation of slaves to masters there is, or has been, any shado...
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4. Literally, "Ye have become void from Christ," that is, your connection with Christ has become void (Ga 5:2). Ro 7:2, "Loosed from the law," where the same Greek occurs as here.
**whosoever of you are justified--**"are being justified," that is, are endeavoring to be justified.
**by the law--**Greek, "IN the law," as the element in which justification is to take place.
**fallen from grace-...
Read full commentary →Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
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<strong>[Verse 6:8 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(8) **The same shall he receive of the Lord.**—This verse clenches the previous exhortations by the inculcation of a sense of responsibility and hope. The phrase itself is emphatic—not *“he* shall receive the reward of his deed,” but “he shall receive the deed itself,” considered as a thing still living and returning on his head, both in the judgments of life and in what we rightly call the “Last ...
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**5. For--**proof of the assertion, "fallen from grace," by contrasting with the case of legalists, the "hope" of Christians.
**through the Spirit--**Greek, rather, "by the Spirit": in opposition to by the flesh (Ga 4:29), or fleshly ways of justification, as circumcision and legal ordinances. "We" is emphatical, and contrasted with "whosoever of you would be justified by the law" (Ga 5:4).
**...
Read full commentary →And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. forbearing: or, moderating your: some read, both your and their Master
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<strong>[Verse 6:9 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(9) **Do** **the same things unto them**—*i.e.*, treat them as flesh and blood like yourselves, having, as men, the same claims on you as you on them; “do unto them as ye would that they should do unto you.” The parallel passage in the Colossian Epistle (Ephesians 4:1) is the best comment on this, “Give unto your servants what is just and equal.” “To forbear threatening,” or, as in the original, “...
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**6. For--**confirming the truth that it is "by faith" (Ga 5:5).
**in Jesus Christ--**Greek, "in Christ Jesus." In union with Christ (the Anointed Saviour), that is, Jesus of Nazareth.
**nor uncircumcision--**This is levelled against those who, being not legalists, or Judaizers, think themselves Christians on this ground alone.
**faith which worketh by love--**Greek, "working by love." This ...
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Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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<strong>[Verse 6:10 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(6. **Conclusion** (Ephesians 6:10-24).
(1) FINAL EXHORTATION to put on the whole armour of God, in order to stand fast in the struggle, not against flesh and blood, but against unearthly powers of evil (Ephesians 6:10-17).
(2) SPECIAL DESIRE OF THEIR PRAYERS, as for themselves and for all men, so especially for St. Paul himself (Ephesians 6:18-20).
(3) COMMENDATION OF TYCHICUS (Ephesians 6:21-22)...
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7. Translate, "Ye were running well" in the Gospel race (1Co 9:24-26; Php 3:13, 14).
**who, &c.--**none whom you ought to have listened to [Bengel]: alluding to the Judaizers (compare Ga 3:1).
**hinder--**The Greek means, literally, "hinder by breaking up a road."
**not obey the truth--**not submit yourselves to the true Gospel way of justification.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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<strong>[Verse 6:11 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(11) **Put on the whole armour.**—The special emphasis in this verse is on “the whole armour,” or “panoply” (a word only used here and in Luke 11:22); not mainly on its strength or its brightness, as “armour of light” (comp. Romans 13:12), but on its completeness, providing against all “the wiles” and “all the fiery darts” of the Evil One, leaving no one point unguarded by a carelessness which may...
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**8. This persuasion--**Greek, "The persuasion," namely, to which you are yielding. There is a play on words in the original, the Greek for persuasion being akin to "obey" (Ga 5:7). This persuasion which ye have obeyed.
**cometh not of--**that is "from." Does not emanate from Him, but from an enemy.
**that calleth you--**(Ga 5:13; Ga 1:6; Php 3:14; 1Th 5:24). The calling is the rule of the who...
Read full commentary →For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. flesh: Gr. blood and flesh spiritual: or, wicked spirits high: or, heavenly
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<strong>[Verse 6:12 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(12) **For we wrestle.**—Properly, *For our wrestling is.* That there is a struggle, a “battle of life,” must be assumed at once by all who look at the world as it is; the question is whether it is against flesh and blood, or against a more unearthly power of evil.
**Flesh and blood.**—Or rather (as perhaps also in Hebrews 2:14), *blood and flesh.* So in John 1:13, “Not of blood, nor of the will o...
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**9. A little leaven--**the false teaching of the Judaizers. A small portion of legalism, if it be mixed with the Gospel, corrupts its purity. To add legal ordinances and works in the least degree to justification by faith, is to undermine "the whole." So "leaven" is used of false doctrine (Mt 16:12: compare Mt 13:33). In 1Co 5:6 it means the corrupting influence of one bad person; so Bengel under...
Read full commentary →Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. having: or, having overcome all
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<strong>[Verse 6:13 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(13) **In the evil day.**—Comp. Ephesians 5:15, “Because the days are evil.” The evil day is any day of which it may be said in our Lord’s words, “This is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53). In this life all days may be evil, but, except to the reprobate, none wholly evil; for out of evil “all things work together for good.”
**Having done all, to stand.**—The rendering (see Chrysos...
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10. Greek, "I (emphatical: 'I on my part') have confidence in the Lord with regard to you (2Th 3:4), that ye will be none otherwise minded" (than what by this Epistle I desire you to be, Php 3:15).
**but he that troubleth you--**(Ga 1:7; Ac 15:24; Jos 7:25; 1Ki 18:17, 18). Some one, probably, was prominent among the seducers, though the denunciation applies to them all (Ga 1:7; 4:17).
**shall ...
Read full commentary →Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
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<strong>[Verse 6:14 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(14-17) In this magnificent passage, while it would be unreasonable to look for formal and systematic exactness, it is clear that (as usual in St. Paul’s most figurative passages) there runs through the whole a distinct method of idea. Thus (1) the order in which the armour in enumerated is clearly the order in which the armour of the Roman soldier was actually put on. It nearly corresponds with t...
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11. Translate, "If I am still preaching (as I did before conversion) circumcision, why am I still persecuted?" The Judaizing troubler of the Galatians had said, "Paul himself preaches circumcision," as is shown by his having circumcised Timothy (Ac 16:3; compare also Ac 20:6; 21:24). Paul replies by anticipation of their objection, As regards myself, the fact that I am still persecuted by the Jews...
Read full commentary →And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
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<strong>[Verse 6:15 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(15) **Shod with the preparation of the gospel** **of peace.**—This passage is one which even to the Greek interpreters (see Chrysostom) was obscure. What is “the preparation of the gospel of peace”? (1) It has seemed to many natural to illustrate this phrase by the celebrated passage (Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15), “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace”; and to interpre...
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**12. they ... which trouble you--**Translate, as the Greek is different from Ga 5:10, "they who are unsettling you."
**were even cut off--**even as they desire your foreskin to be cut off and cast away by circumcision, so would that they were even cut off from your communion, being worthless as a castaway foreskin (Ga 1:7, 8; compare Php 3:2). The fathers, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, and Chryso...
Read full commentary →Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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<strong>[Verse 6:16 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(16) **Above all.**—Properly, *over all, *or *besides all else.* The shield here is the large heavy shield covering the whole body, in which the “fiery darts”—that is, the arrows, with the points made red hot, or wrapped in with burning tow (comp. Psalm 7:14; Psalm 120:4)—may fix and burn themselves out without harm. St. Paul likens it to “faith.” This, however, is neither the “faith in which we s...
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13. The "ye" is emphatical, from its position in the Greek, "Ye brethren"; as opposed to those legalists "who trouble you."
**unto liberty--**The Greek expresses, "on a footing of liberty." The state or condition in which ye have been called to salvation, is one of liberty. Gospel liberty consists in three things, freedom from the Mosaic yoke, from sin, and from slavish fear.
**only, &c.--...
Read full commentary →And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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<strong>[Verse 6:17 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(17) **And take.**—There is a break here. We are said not to put on, but to “take” (or rather, *receive*)—a word specially appropriate to “salvation.”
**The helmet of salvation.**—The word here (as in Luke 2:30; Luke 3:6; Acts 28:28) rendered “salvation,” is not the word commonly so rendered in the New Testament. It is, indeed, not “salvation” in the abstract, but a general expression for “that wh...
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**14. all the law--**Greek, "the whole law," namely, the Mosaic law. Love to God is presupposed as the root from which love to our neighbor springs; and it is in this tense the latter precept (so "word" means here) is said to be the fulfilling of "all the law" (Le 19:18). Love is "the law of Christ" (Ga 6:2; Mt 7:12; 22:39, 40; Ro 13:9, 10).
**is fulfilled--**Not as received text "is being fulfi...
Read full commentary →Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
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<strong>[Verse 6:18 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(18, 19) **And supplication for all saints; and for me.**—It is curious, and probably not accidental, that the prepositions in these two clauses are different. The first is properly “touching all saints,” and the second “on behalf of me.” Both are often interchanged; but there is, perhaps, here a touch of greater earnestness in the request of their prayers for himself, in especial reference to the...
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**15. bite--**backbite the character.
**devour--**the substance by injuring, extortion, &c. (Ha 1:13; Mt 23:14; 2Co 11:20).
**consumed, &c.--**Strength of soul, health of body, character, and resources, are all consumed by broils [Bengel].
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly , to make known the mystery of the gospel,
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<strong>[Verse 6:19 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(19) **That utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth . . .**—This hardly renders the original “that word may be given me in opening my mouth.” The “opening the mouth”—an expression always used of solemn and deliberate utterance—seems taken for granted. What the Apostle desires them to pray for is that “word may be given him”—“the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge, by the Spirit” ...
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**16. This I say then--**Repeating in other words, and explaining the sentiment in Ga 5:13, What I mean is this."
**Walk in the Spirit--**Greek, "By (the rule of) the (Holy) Spirit." Compare Ga 5:16-18, 22, 25; Ga 6:1-8, with Ro 7:22; 8:11. The best way to keep tares out of a bushel is to fill it with wheat.
**the flesh--**the natural man, out of which flow the evils specified (Ga 5:19-21). Th...
Read full commentary →For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. in bonds: or, in a chain therein: or, thereof
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<strong>[Verse 6:20 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(20) **In bonds.**—Rightly, as in the margin, *in a chain.* The word is the same which is used in Acts 28:20, “For the hope of Israel I am bound in this chain.” It occurs also in Mark 5:4, Luke 8:29, where it is distinguished from a “fetter” properly so called, as binding the feet, and therefore obviously signifies a “manacle” binding the hand. Both are included (see Luke 8:29) in the general word...
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**17. For--**the reason why walking by the Spirit will exclude fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, namely, their mutual contrariety.
**the Spirit--**not "lusteth," but "tendeth (or some such word is to be supplied) against the flesh."
**so that ye cannot do the things that ye would--**The Spirit strives against the flesh and its evil influence; the flesh against the Spirit and His good influenc...
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But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
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<strong>[Verse 6:21 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(21) **That ye also**—*i.e., *ye as well as others. There is evidently an allusion to Tychicus’ similar mission to Colossæ; and we may, perhaps, also trace some indication of a generality of scope in this Epistle.
**Tychicus** is first mentioned with Trophimus in Acts 20:4, as being “of Asia,” and accompanying St. Paul on his last journey from Corinth to Asia, although he is not, like Trophimus, a...
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18. "If ye are led (give yourselves up to be led) by (Greek) the Spirit, ye are not under the law." For ye are not working the works of the flesh (Ga 5:16, 19-21) which bring one "under the law" (Ro 8:2, 14). The "Spirit makes free from the law of sin and death" (Ga 5:23). The law is made for a fleshly man, and for the works of the flesh (1Ti 1:9), "not for a righteous man" (Ro 6:14, 15).
Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
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<strong>[Verse 6:22 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(22) **Whom I have** **sent unto you.**—This verse corresponds word for word with Colossians 4:8, being a quasi-official statement of Tychicus’ commission. The words “that he might comfort (or, *encourage*) your hearts,” although they might apply generally to all messengers from an Apostle, may probably be best explained by reference to the tone of the Epistle to the Philippians—in which St. Paul ...
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19-23. Confirming Ga 5:18, by showing the contrariety between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
**manifest--**The hidden fleshly principle betrays itself palpably by its works, so that these are not hard to discover, and leave no doubt that they come not from the Spirit.
**which are these--**Greek, "such as," for instance.
**Adultery--**omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
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Read full commentary →Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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<strong>[Verse 6:23 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(23) **Peace be to the brethren . . .**—In the conclusion of the Epistle, as at the beginning, St. Paul gives the double benediction, “Peace and grace be with you all.” But it. is impossible not to notice the difference between the generality of the terms here used (“the brethren,” and “all who love the Lord Jesus Christ”) and the personal “you” of all the other Epistles—a difference which would b...
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19-23. Confirming Ga 5:18, by showing the contrariety between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
**manifest--**The hidden fleshly principle betrays itself palpably by its works, so that these are not hard to discover, and leave no doubt that they come not from the Spirit.
**which are these--**Greek, "such as," for instance.
**Adultery--**omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
...
Read full commentary →Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. in sincerity: or, with incorruption To the Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.
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<strong>[Verse 6:24 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 6 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(24) **Grace be with all them . . .**—The salutation, “Grace be with you,” in various forms, is, as St. Paul himself says in 2Thessalonians 3:17, “the token,” or characteristic signature, in every one of his Epistles, written with his own hand. It may be noted that it is not found in the Epistles of St. James, St. Peter, St. Jude and St. John, and that it is found in the Epistle to the Hebrews. He...
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19-23. Confirming Ga 5:18, by showing the contrariety between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
**manifest--**The hidden fleshly principle betrays itself palpably by its works, so that these are not hard to discover, and leave no doubt that they come not from the Spirit.
**which are these--**Greek, "such as," for instance.
**Adultery--**omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
...
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