{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/eph005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/eph005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/eph005.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nBe ye (\u03b3\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nBecome, as Eph 4:32.\nFollowers (\u03bc\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u1f76)\nRev, correctly, imitators.\nDear (\u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b7\u03c4\u03ac)\nRev., beloved. As those to whom Christ has shown love\nWalk in love\nAs imitators of God who is love.\nLoved us (\u1f21\u03bc\u1fb6\u03c2)\nThe correct reading is \u1f51\u03bc\u1fb6\u03c2 you.\nGave (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ad\u03b4\u03c9\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd)\nTo death Compare Rom 4:25, where the same verb was delivered is followed by was raised. See also Rom 8:32; Gal 2:20.\nOffering - sacrifice (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u1f70\u03bd - \u03b8\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nOffering, general, including the life as well as the death of Christ: sacrifice, special: on the cross. Properly, a slain offering.\nA sweet smelling savor (\u1f40\u03c3\u03bc\u1f74\u03bd \u03b5\u1f50\u03c9\u03b4\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nRev., correctly, odor of a sweet smell. See on Co2 2:14, Co2 2:15, Co2 2:16. The Septuagint, in Lev 1:9, uses this phrase to render the Hebrew, a savor of quietness. For (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2) expresses design, that it might become, or result: so that it became.\nOr covetousness\nOr sets this sin emphatically by itself.\nLet it\nIt refers to each of the sins.\nFilthiness (\u03b1\u1f30\u03c3\u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2)\nObscenity.\nFoolish talking (\u03bc\u03c9\u03c1\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1)\nOnly here in the New Testament. Talk which is both foolish and sinful. Compare corrupt communication, Eph 4:29. It is more than random or idle talk. \"Words obtain a new earnestness when assumed into the ethical terminology of Christ's school. Nor, in seeking to enter fully into the meaning of this one, ought we to leave out of sight the greater emphasis which the words fool, foolish, folly obtain in Scripture than elsewhere they have or can have\" (Trench).\nJesting (\u03b5\u1f50\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03b1)\nOnly here in the New Testament. From \u03b5\u1f50 well or easily, \u03c0\u03c1\u03ad\u03c0\u03c9 to turn. That which easily turns and adapts itself to the moods and conditions of those with whom it may be dealing at the moment. From this original sense of versatility it came to be applied to morals, as timeserving, and to speech with the accompanying notion of dissimulation. Aristotle calls it chastened insolence. The sense of the word here is polished and witty speech as the instrument of sin; refinement and versatility without the flavor of Christian grace. \"Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense.... Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being.... Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language\" (Barrow, Sermon xiv., \"Against Foolish Talking and Jesting.\" The whole passage is well worth reading).\nYe know (\u1f34\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5 \u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nThe A.V. fails to give the whole force of the expression, which is, ye know recognizing. Rev., ye know of a surety.\nIdolater\nCompare Col 3:5, and see on Co1 5:10.\nVain\nPlausible, but devoid of truth, and employed to palliate heathen vices.\nBe not (\u03b3\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nLit., become not. It is a warning against lapsing into old vices.\nYe were\nEmphatic, and according with become of Eph 5:7. Ye were darkness, but now are ye light. Do not become darkness again.\nDarkness (\u03c3\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2)\nSee on Joh 1:5.\nLight (\u03c6\u1ff6\u03c2)\nLight itself; not a lamp. Children of light. See Mat 5:16.\nIs in\nConsists in. The verse is parenthetical.\nProving\nConnect with walk. Walk, proving by your walk. Proving, see on Pe1 1:7.\nAcceptable (\u03b5\u1f50\u03ac\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd)\nRev., better and more literally, well-pleasing. The one point of all moral investigation is, does it please God?\nHave - fellowship (\u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5)\nSee on Rev 18:4; see on Rev 1:9.\nUnfruitful works (\u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03ba\u03ac\u03c1\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nCompare fruit, Eph 5:9, and Gal 5:19, Gal 5:22, works of the flesh, fruit of the Spirit. Works which bring no blessing with them. Compare Rom 6:21; Rom 8:13; Gal 5:21; Gal 6:8.\nReprove (\u03b5\u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5)\nSee on Joh 3:20.\nAll things (\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nMore literally, they all, or all of them; the secret sins just mentioned.\nThat are reproved (\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03c7\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1)\nLit., being reproved. Rev., when they are reproved. Reproved is to be taken in the same literal sense as in Eph 5:11, and not metaphorically in the sense of being demonstrated by light, or brought to light, which is almost synonymous with are made manifest.\nBy the light\nConnect with are made manifest, not with are reproved.\nWhatsoever doth make manifest is light (\u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 \u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03cd\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u03c6\u1ff6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03af\u03bd)\nWrong. The A.V. renders doth make manifest, as in the middle voice, but the verb is in the passive voice. It occurs nearly fifty times in the New Testament, and never as middle. Hence Rev., correctly, everything that is made manifest.\nIs light\nA general proposition, going to show that manifestation can come only through light. Whatever is revealed in its true essence by light is of the nature of light. It no longer belongs to the category of darkness. Manifestation is a law of good and evil alike. That which is of the truth seeks the light and cometh to the light. That which is evil avoids the light, and loves darkness better than light, but none the less is brought to the light and appears in its own light. See Joh 3:20, Joh 3:21. This truth is embodied in another form in the parable of the Tares. Growth is manifestation. By suffering the tares to grow, their difference from the wheat, which at first is not apparent, is fully revealed.\nHe saith\nGod. This use of the personal pronoun is frequent in Paul's writings. See Gal 3:16; Eph 4:8; Co1 6:16.\nAwake. etc.\nThe quotation is probably a combination and free rendering of Isa 60:1; Isa 26:19. For similar combinations see on Rom 3:10; see on Rom 9:33. By some the words are regarded as the fragment of a hymn.\nShall give thee light\nRev., correctly, shall shine upon thee.\nSee that ye walk circumspectly (\u03b2\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c0\u1ff6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03b2\u1ff6\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5)\nLit., look how exactly ye walk. The best texts place \u03c4\u1ff6\u03c2 how after \u1f00\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03b2\u1ff6\u03c2 exactly. So Rev., look carefully how ye walk. Circumspectly is better rendered carefully. It means exactly, accurately, from \u1f04\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 the farthest point. See on inquired diligently, Mat 2:6; and compare Luk 1:3 (note); Act 18:25 (note).\nNot as unwise, but as wise\nExplanatory of carefully.\nRedeeming the time (\u1f10\u03be\u03b1\u03b3\u03bf\u03c1\u03b1\u03b6\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c0\u03cc\u03bd)\nSee on Col 4:5.\nUnderstanding (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b9\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nSee on prudent, Mat 11:25; foolish, see on Rom 3:21.\nBe not drunk (\u03bc\u1f74 \u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03cd\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nSee on Joh 2:10.\nWherein\nIn drunkenness, not in wine.\nExcess (\u1f00\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03af\u03b1)\nRev., riot. Lit., unsavingness. See on riotous living, Luk 15:13.\nSpeaking to yourselves (\u03bb\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u1f11\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2)\nRev., one to another.\nThe A.V. is literally correct, but is open to the misinterpretation each one communing with himself. The meaning is as in Col 3:13, and Rev. is better.\nPsalms\nSee on Co1 14:15.\nHymns - spiritual songs\nSee on Col 3:16.\nYour own (\u1f30\u03b4\u03af\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nThe peculiar personal relationship is emphasized as the ground of the duty.\nHe is the savior of the body\nIn this particular the comparison between the husband as the head of the wife, and Christ as the head of the Church, does not hold. Hence Rev., properly, renders for and He is, being Himself; Himself separating the clause from what was previously said. The comparison lies in the fact of headship alone. The husband's love and protection cannot be called salvation, in which respect Christ's headship is peculiar to Himself.\nTherefore (\u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70)\nRev, correctly, but. Offsetting the relation of savior. The comparison does not hold in respect of salvation, but it does hold in respect of subjection.\nSanctify and cleanse (\u1f01\u03b3\u03b9\u03ac\u03c3\u1fc3 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2)\nRev., might sanctify, having cleansed. The Rev. brings out the proper succession of sanctification as a consequence of cleansing: might sanctify after having cleansed.\nWith the washing of water (\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03c1\u1ff7 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f55\u03b4\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2)\n\u039b\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd washing is properly laver. Note the article, the laver, as something well known. There is no satisfactory evidence for the meaning washing. The allusion is to baptism. Some find a reference to the bride's bath before marriage.\nBy the word (\u1f10\u03bd \u1fe5\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9)\nRev., correctly, with the word. To be connected with having cleansed it by the laver of water: not with might sanctify, nor with the laver of water alone, as a descriptive epithet. With the word describes that which accompanies the rite and which is the peculiar element of baptismal purification. Compare Joh 15:3. Augustine says: \"Take away the word, and what is the water but water?\"\nHe might present it to Himself (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u1fc3 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f11\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1ff7)\nAs a bride. Compare Co2 11:2. Notice the two pronouns in conjunction, He, to Himself. Christ Himself presents the bride.\nSpot (\u03c3\u03c0\u03af\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd)\nOnly here and Pe2 2:13; The kindred verb \u03c3\u03c0\u03b9\u03bb\u03cc\u03c9 to defile, occurs Jam 3:6; Jde 1:23.\nWrinkle (\u1fe5\u03c5\u03c4\u03af\u03b4\u03b1)\nOnly here in the New Testament.\nSo\nAs Christ loved the Church.\nAs their own bodies (\u1f61\u03c2)\nAs being: since they are.\nFlesh\nInstead of body, with reference to Gen 2:23.\nCherisheth (\u03b8\u03ac\u03bb\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9)\nOnly here and Th1 2:7. Originally, to warm.\nOmit of His flesh and of His bones.\nShall be joined (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9)\nOnly here; and Mar 10:7. See on Luk 15:15. The compound verb denotes most intimate union.\nShall be one flesh (\u1f14\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03ba\u03b1 \u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nThe A.V. overlooks the force of \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 unto. Lit., shall be unto one flesh. Rev., shall become.\nA great mystery\nGreat is predicative, not attributive. Rev., correctly, this mystery is great. The reference in this mystery is to the preceding statement of the conjugal relation of the Church with Christ, typified by the human marriage relation.\nConcerning Christ and the Church\nRev., in regard of (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2). Not calling your attention to the mere human relationship, but to the mysterious relation between Christ and His Church, of which that is a mere semblance.\nNevertheless\nNot to dwell longer on the mystical aspect of the subject.\nEven as himself\nNot as much as he loves himself, but as being his very self.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Ephesians: Ephesians Chapter 5","type":"page"}