{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/eph004.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/eph004.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/eph004.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nIn the Lord\nSee on Phi 1:14.\nLowiness - meekness\nSee on Mat 11:29; see on Mat 5:5.\nLong-suffering\nSee on Jam 5:7.\nForbearing (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03c7\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9)\nSee on Luk 9:41.\nEndeavoring (\u03c3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03ac\u03b6\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nNot strong enough. Originally the verb means to make haste. So the kindred noun \u03c3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03ae haste, Mar 6:25; Luk 1:39. Hence diligence. Rev., here, giving diligence.\nTo keep (\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd)\nSee on reserved, Pe1 1:4.\nUnity of the Spirit\nWrought by the Holy Spirit.\nBond of peace\nThe bond which is peace. Compare Eph 2:14, our peace - made both one. Christ, our peace, is thus a bond of peace. Others, however, treat in the bond as parallel with in love of Eph 4:2, and cite Col 3:14, \"love the bond of perfectness.\"\nThe connection with the preceding verses is as follows: I exhort you to unity, for you stand related to the Church, which is one body in Christ; to the one Spirit who informs it; to the one hope which your calling inspires; to the one Lord, Christ, in whom you believe with one common faith, and receive one common sign of that faith, baptism. Above all, to the one God and Father.\nBody - Spirit\nThe body is the invisible Church, the mystical body of Christ: the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. \u03a0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 spirit, is never used in the New Testament of temper or disposition.\nEven as\nTo the facts of one body and one Spirit corresponds the fact of their calling in one hope. Compare Col 3:15.\nIn one hope of your calling (\u1f10\u03bd \u03bc\u03b9\u1fb7 \u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03b4\u03b9 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03ba\u03bb\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2 \u1f51\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd)\nIn, not by. Their calling took place in the one hope as its moral element or sphere, since they were called to fellowship with Christ who is the one object and the one inspirer of hope. Compare called in peace, Co1 7:15; in sanctification, Th1 4:7 (Rev.). Hope here is not the object but the principle of hope. The phrase hope of your calling signifies hope which is characteristic of God's call to salvation, and is engendered by it. See on Eph 1:18.\nFaith\nThe principle of faith; not that which is believed - the body of Christian doctrine, which does not promote unity. See on Act 6:7.\nBaptism\nThe external sign of faith, but of no significance without the Lord and the faith. Baptism is emphasized instead of the Eucharist, because the latter assumes and recognizes unity as an established fact; while faith and baptism precede that fact, and are essential to it. Baptism, moreover, is not administered to the Church as a body, but to individuals, and therefore emphasizes the exhortation to each member to be in vital union with the whole body.\nOne God and Father\nThe fundamental ground of unity. Note the climax: One Church, one Christ, one God.\nAbove all (\u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd)\nRev, over: as ruler.\nThrough - in (\u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 - \u1f10\u03bd)\nThrough, pervading: in, indwelling. Compare Eph 2:22; Eph 3:17.\nEvery one (\u1f11\u03bd\u1f76 \u1f11\u03ba\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u1ff3)\nRev., each. From the Church as a whole, he passes to its individual members. In the general unity the individual is not overlooked, and unity is consistent with variety of gifts and offices.\nGrace (\u1f21 \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2)\nThe article, omitted by A.V., is important: the one grace of God, manifesting itself in the different gifts.\nWherefore\nConfirming by Scripture what has just been said.\nWhen He ascended, etc.\nQuoted from Psa 68:19 (Sept. 67:18). The Hebrew reads: \"Ascending to the height thou didst lead captive captivity, and received gifts in man.\" So Sept. Paul changes thou didst lead, didst receive, into he lead and he gave. The Psalm is Messianic, a hymn of victory in which God is praised for victory and deliverance. It is freely adapted by Paul, who regards its substance rather than its letter, and uses it as an expression of the divine triumph as fulfilled in Christ's victory over death and sin.\nAscended\nThe ascent of Jehovah is realized in Christ's ascent into heaven.\nCaptivity\nAbstract for the body of captives. See on Luk 4:18. The captives are not the redeemed, but the enemies of Christ's kingdom, Satan, Sin, and Death. Compare on Col 2:15, and Co2 2:14.\nGave\nIn the Hebrew and Septuagint, received or took; but with the sense received in order to distribute among men. Compare Gen 15:9, take for me: Gen 18:5, I will fetch for you: Exo 27:20, bring thee, i.e., take and present to thee: Act 2:33, \"Having received of the Father, etc., He hath shed forth.\" Thus Paul interprets the received of the Old Testament. His point is the distribution of grace by Christ in varied measure to individuals. He confirms this by Scripture, seeing in the Jehovah of this Old-Testament passage the Christ of the New Testament - one Redeemer under both covenants - and applying the Psalmist's address to Christ who distributes the results of His victory among His loyal subjects. These results are enumerated in Eph 4:11 sqq.\nNow that He ascended\nEph 4:9 and Eph 4:10 are parenthetical, showing what the ascension of Christ presupposes. By descending into the depths and ascending above all, He entered upon His function of filling the whole universe, in virtue of which function He distributes gifts to men. See Eph 1:23. Rev., properly, inserts this, thus giving the force of the article which calls attention to the fact of ascension alluded to in the quotation. \"Now the or this 'He ascended.\"'\nWhat is it but\nWhat does it imply?\nDescended first (\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03b2\u03b7)\nHis ascent implies a previous descent. A.V. reads first, following the Tex. Rec. \u03c0\u03c1\u1ff6\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd. Rev., correctly, He also descended. Compare Joh 3:13.\nThe lower parts of the earth (\u03c4\u1f70 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ce\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c1\u03b7 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u1fc6\u03c2)\nThe under world. The reference is to Christ's descent into Hades. Some give the words a comparative force, deeper than the earth.\nFill all things\nCompare Eph 1:23.\nThe gifts specified.\nHe gave\nHe is emphatic. It is He that gave. Compare given in Eph 4:7.\nApostles\nProperly, as apostles, or to be apostles. Christ's ministers are gifts to His people. Compare Co1 3:5, \"ministers as the Lord gave;\" also Co1 3:21, Co1 3:22. The distinguishing features of an apostle were, a commission directly from Christ: being a witness of the resurrection: special inspiration: supreme authority: accrediting by miracles: unlimited commission to preach and to found churches.\nProphets\nPreachers and expounders under the immediate influence of the Spirit, and thus distinguished from teachers. Co1 12:10.\nEvangelists\nTraveling missionaries.\nPastors and teachers\nPastors or shepherds. The verb \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03c9 to tend as a shepherd, is often used in this sense. See on Pe1 5:2; see on Mat 2:6. The omission of the article from teachers seems to indicate that pastors and teachers are included under one class. The two belong together. No man is fit to be a pastor who cannot also teach, and the teacher needs the knowledge which pastoral experience gives.\nFor the perfecting (\u03c0\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u1f78\u03bd)\nOnly here in the New Testament. In classical Greek of refitting a ship or setting a bone. The preposition for denotes the ultimate purpose. Ministering and building are means to this end. Hence its emphatic position in the sentence. For perfecting, see on mending, Mat 4:21; see on perfected, Mat 21:16; see on Luk 6:40; see on Pe1 5:10. Compare Co1 1:10; Heb 13:21. The radical idea of adjustment is brought out in Eph 4:13.\nFor the work of the ministry (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nRev., much better, unto the work of ministering. \u0395\u1f30\u03c2 unto, marks the immediate purpose of the gift. He gave apostles, etc., unto the work of ministering and building, for the perfecting, etc. The prevailing sense of \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 ministry, in the New Testament, is spiritual service of an official character. See Act 1:25; Act 6:4; Act 20:24; Rom 11:13; Ti1 1:12; Ti2 4:5.\nEdifying (\u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u1f74\u03bd)\nRev., building up. See on Act 20:32. Notice the combination of perfecting and building. Building defines the nature of the work of ministry, and perfecting comes through a process.\nTill (\u03bc\u03ad\u03c7\u03c1\u03b9)\nSpecifying the time up to which this ministry and impartation of gifts are to last.\nCome (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd)\nArrive at, as a goal. See Act 16:1; Act 18:19; Act 25:13. Rev., attain.\nIn the unity (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2)\nRev., correctly, unto. Compare one faith, Eph 4:5.\nKnowledge (\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2)\nThe full knowledge. Not identical with faith, since the article puts it as a distinct conception; but related to faith. Compare Phi 3:9, Phi 3:10; Jo1 4:16. \"Christians are not to be informed merely on different sections of truth and erring through defective information on other points, but they are to be characterized by the completeness and harmony of their ideas of the power, work, history, and glory of the Son of God\" (Eadie).\nOf the Son of God\nBelongs to both faith and knowledge. Faith in Him, knowledge of Him.\nPerfect (\u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd)\nRev., full grown. See on Co1 2:6.\nMeasure of the stature (\u03bc\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u1f21\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nDefining perfect man. For stature, see on Luk 12:25. The word is rendered age, Joh 9:21, Joh 9:23; Heb 11:11. So here, by some, the age when the fullness of Christ is received. But fullness and grow up (Eph 4:15) suggest rather the idea of magnitude.\nFullness of Christ\nWhich belongs to Christ and is imparted by Him. See Joh 1:16, and compare Eph 3:19.\nChildren (\u03bd\u03ae\u03c0\u03b9\u03bf\u03b9)\nSee on Co1 2:6; see on Co1 3:1. As to the connection, Eph 4:13 states the ultimate goal of christian training; Eph 4:14 that which is pursued with a view to the attainment of that goal. Eph 4:14 is subordinate to Eph 4:13, as is shown by the retention of the same figure, and is remotely dependent on Eph 4:11, Eph 4:12. The remote end, Eph 4:13, is placed before the more immediate one, as in Eph 4:12. See note.\nTossed to and fro (\u03ba\u03bb\u03c5\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03b6\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9)\nOnly here in the New Testament. See on wave, Jam 1:6. For Paul's use of nautical metaphors, see on Phi 1:23. Compare Plato: \"Socrates. In a ship, if a man having the power to do what he likes, has no intelligence or skill in navigation, do you see what will happen to him and to his fellow-sailors? Alcibiades. Yes, I see that they will all perish\" (\"Alcibiades,\" i., 135).\nWind of doctrine\nOr of the teaching. The different teachings of philosophers or of religious quacks are represented as winds, blowing the unstable soul in every direction.\nSleight (\u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03af\u1fb3)\nOnly here in the New Testament. From \u03ba\u03cd\u03b2\u03bf\u03c2 a cube or die. Lit., dice-playing.\nCunning craftiness (\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b3\u03af\u1fb3)\nSee on Luk 20:23. The craft which gamblers use.\nWhereby they lie in wait to deceive (\u03c0\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2)\nLit., tending to the system of error. Rev., after the wiles of error. \u039c\u03b5\u03b8\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1 means a deliberate planning or system. Of error includes the idea of deceit or delusion. See Mat 27:64; Rom 1:27; Pe2 2:18; Pe2 3:17; Jam 5:20. Error organizes. It has its systems and its logic. Ellicott remarks that here it is almost personified.\nSpeaking the truth (\u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u03cd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nOnly here and Gal 4:16. In classical Greek it means to be true, to arrive at truth, and to speak truth. Here the idea is rather that of being or walking in truth. Rev., in margin, dealing truly.\nIn love\nSome connect with grow up. The parallel construction, tossed and carried about in the sleight, in craftiness, speaking truth in love, favors the A.V. and Rev., as does the awkwardness of speaking truth standing alone. Moreover, Paul's habit is to subjoin, and not to prefix, his qualifying clauses.\nFitly joined - compacted (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c1\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03cd\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd - \u03c3\u03c5\u03bc\u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03b1\u03b6\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe present participles denote present, continuous progress. The two participles represent respectively the ideas of harmony or adaptation and compactness or solidity. See on Act 9:22, and see on Col 2:2.\nBy that which every joint supplieth (\u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03c0\u03ac\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2 \u1f01\u03c6\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c7\u03bf\u03c1\u03b7\u03b3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nLit., through every joint of the supply. For joint, see on Col 2:19; for supply, see on Pe2 1:5. The supply specifies it as peculiarly Christ's. The phrase joint of the supply signifies joint whose office or purpose it is to supply. Construe with the two participles, as Col 2:19.\nAccording to the working\nConstrue with maketh increase.\nIn the measure of every part\nAccording as each part works in its own proper measure.\nMaketh\nNotice the peculiar phrase; the whole body maketh increase of the body. It is a living organism, and its growth is produced by vital power within itself.\nAs the element in which the upbuilding takes place. Compare Eph 3:17-19.\nThis - therefore\nReferring to what follows. Therefore, resuming the exhortation of Eph 4:1-3.\nTestify\nSolemnly declare. Compare Act 20:26; Gal 5:3.\nOther Gentiles\nOmit other.\nVanity of their mind (\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bd\u03bf\u1f78\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd)\nFor vanity see on Rom 1:21; see on Rom 8:20. For mind, see on Rom 7:23.\nUnderstanding (\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03af\u1fb3)\nSee on Luk 1:51. The moral understanding.\nLife of God (\u03b6\u03c9\u1fc6\u03c2)\nSee on Joh 1:4. The life which God bestows; life in Christ. See Jo1 5:11.\nThrough the ignorance\nThe cause of the alienation. Not to be construed with darkened, since ignorance is the effect, and not the cause, of the darkness of the understanding.\nWhich is in them (\u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03bf\u1f56\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2)\nThe participle of the substantive verb expresses the deep-seated, indwelling character of the ignorance.\nHardening (\u03c0\u03ce\u03c1\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nSee on Mar 3:5. Dependent, like ignorance, on alienated. Arrange the whole clause thus:\nThe Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,\nbeing darkened in their understanding,\nbeing alienated from the life of God,\nbecause of the ignorance that is in them,\nbecause of the hardening of their heart.\nWho (\u03bf\u1f35\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2)\nExplanatory and classifying: men of the class which.\nBeing past feeling (\u1f00\u03c0\u03b7\u03bb\u03b3\u03b7\u03ba\u03bf\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nOnly here in the New Testament. Lit, the verb means to cease from feeling pain. Hence to be apathetic.\nHave given themselves over (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ad\u03b4\u03c9\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd)\nSee on Mat 4:12; see on Mat 11:27; see on Mat 26:2; see on Mar 4:29; see on Luk 1:2; see on Pe1 2:23. The verb is frequently used of Christ giving Himself for the world. Rom 4:25; Gal 2:20; Eph 5:5, Eph 5:25. It indicates a complete surrender. Meyer says, \"with frightful emphasis.\" Where men persistently give themselves up to evil, God gives them up to its power. See Rom 1:24.\nLasciviousness (\u1f00\u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u1fb7)\nSee on Mar 7:22.\nTo work (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nLit., to a working. In Act 19:25, used of a trade. Not precisely in this sense here, yet with a shade of it. They gave themselves up as to the prosecution of a business. The \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 unto is very forcible.\nWith greediness (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03be\u03af\u1fb3)\nThe noun commonly rendered covetousness: in an eager grasping after more and more uncleanness. Not with, but in, as the state of mind in which they wrought evil.\nHave not learned (\u03bf\u1f50\u03c7 \u1f10\u03bc\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5)\nRev., giving the force of the aorist tense, did not learn; at the time of your conversion, when you were instructed in Christ's precepts. The phrase learn Christ occurs nowhere else. Christ does not stand for the doctrine of Christ; but Christ is the subject of His own message. See Eph 4:21.\nIf so be that ye heard Him (\u03b5\u1f34 \u03b3\u03b5 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u1f20\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5)\nThe indicative mood implies the truth of the supposition: if ye heard as ye did. Him is emphatic. If it was Him that ye heard. Compare Joh 10:27.\nBy Him (\u1f10\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7)\nRev., correctly, in Him. In fellowship with.\nAs the truth is in Jesus (\u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03ce\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u1f00\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1ff7 \u1f39\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6)\nAs corresponds with not so. Ye did not in such a manner learn Christ if ye were taught in such a manner as is truth, etc. Render, as Rev., as truth is in Jesus. Schaff paraphrases: \"If you were taught so that what you received is true as embodied in the personal Savior.\" \"Taught in the lines of eternal fact and spiritual reality which meet in him\" (Moule). Jesus is used rather than Christ: the historical rather than the official name. The life of Christianity consists in believing fellowship with the historic Jesus, who is the Christ of prophecy.\nThat ye put away\nDependent upon ye were taught, and specifying the purport of the teaching.\nThe old man\nSee on Rom 6:6. Compare Col 3:9.\nWhich is corrupt (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c6\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe A.V. misses the force of the participle. The verb is passive, which is being corrupted, and marks the progressive condition of corruption which characterizes \"the old man.\" Rev., correctly, waxeth corrupt.\nAccording to the deceitful lusts (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2).\nRev., correctly, lusts of deceit. On the vicious rendering of similar phrases in A.V., see on Eph 1:19. Deceit is personified.\nIn the spirit of your mind (\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bd\u03bf\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f51\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd)\nThe spirit is the human spirit, having its seat in and directing the mind. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is never designated so as that man appears as the subject of the Spirit. We have Spirit of adoption, of holiness, of God, but never Holy Spirit of man. Furthermore, the apostle's object is to set forth the moral self-activity of the christian life. Hence \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 spirit, is here the higher life-principle in man by which the human reason, viewed on its moral side - the organ of moral thinking and knowing is informed. The renewal takes place, not in the mind, but in the spirit of it. \"The change is not in mind psychologically, either in its essence or in its operation; and neither is it in the mind as if it were a superficial change of opinion either on points of doctrine or practice: but it is in the spirit of the mind; in that which gives mind both its bent and its materials of thought. It is not simply in the spirit as if it lay there in dim and mystic quietude; but it is in the spirit of the mind; in the power which, when changed itself, radically alters the entire sphere and business of the inner mechanism\" (Eadie).\nNew man (\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u1f78\u03bd)\nSee on Mat 26:29.\nCreated (\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nSee on Eph 2:10.\nIn righteousness and true holiness (\u1f10\u03bd \u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b9\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f41\u03c3\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nRev., correctly, in righteousness and holiness of truth. See on Luk 1:75. Truth. Opposed to deceit, Eph 4:22, and likewise personified. Righteousness and holiness are attributes of truth.\nFalsehood (\u03c4\u1f78 \u03c8\u03b5\u1fe6\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2)\nLit., the lie; used abstractly. See on Joh 8:44.\nMembers one of another\nCompare Rom 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. Chrysostom says: \"Let not the eye lie to the foot, nor the foot to the eye. If there be a deep pit, and its mouth covered with reeds shall present to the eye the appearance of solid ground, will not the eye use the foot to ascertain whether it is hollow underneath, or whether it is firm and resists? Will the foot tell a lie, and not the truth as it is? And what, again, if the eye were to spy a serpent or a wild beast, will it lie to the foot?\"\nBe ye angry and sin not (\u1f40\u03c1\u03b3\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bc\u1f74 \u1f01\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5)\nCited from Psa 4:5, after the Septuagint. Hebrew, stand in awe and sin not. Righteous anger is commanded, not merely permitted.\nWrath (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03c1\u03b3\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u1ff7)\nIrritation, exasperation; something not so enduring as \u1f40\u03c1\u03b3\u03ae anger, which denotes a deep-seated sentiment. See on Joh 3:36.\nPlace\nRoom.\nCorrupt (\u03c3\u03b1\u03c0\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2)\nSee on Luk 6:43, and see on Col 4:6.\nThat which is good (\u03b5\u1f34 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1f78\u03c2)\nLit., if any is good. Discourse that is good, whatever it be.\nTo the use of edifying (\u03c0\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u1f74\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c7\u03c1\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nLit., for the building up of the need. Rev., edifying as the need may be. Compare Th1 5:11, Th1 5:14.\nBitterness (\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03b1)\nBitter frame of mind.\nWrath\nWhat is commanded in Eph 4:26 is here forbidden, because viewed simply on the side of human passion.\nAnger (\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u1f78\u03c2)\nViolent outbreak. See on Joh 3:36; see on Jam 5:7.\nClamor (\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03b3\u1f74)\nOutward manifestation of anger in vociferation or brawling.\nEvil-speaking (\u03b2\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c6\u03b7\u03bc\u03af\u03b1)\nMalice (\u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u1fb3)\nThe root of all the rest. See on Jam 1:21.\nBe ye (\u03b3\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nLit., become, as following the putting away of anger, etc.\nKind (\u03c7\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03af)\nSee on easy, Mat 11:30; see on gracious, Pe1 2:3.\nEach other (\u1f11\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2)\nLit., yourselves. See on Col 3:13. \"Doing as a body for yourselves that which God did once for you all\" (Alford).","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Ephesians: Ephesians Chapter 4","type":"page"}