That he might sanctify it through the word — The ordinary channel of all blessings. Having cleansed it — From the guilt and power of sin. By the washing of water — In baptism; if, with "the outward and visible sign," we receive the "inward and spiritual grace."
Verse 26. _THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT_] The Church is represented as the _spouse of Christ_, as the woman is the _spouse_ of the man; and, to prepare this Church for himself, he _washes,_...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY - The great object of the Redeemer was to purify and save the church. The meaning here is, that a husband is to manifest similar love toward his wife, and a similar desire that...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina._ SANCTIFY. Greek. _hagiazo._ See 1 Corinthians 1:2. AND CLEANSE. having cleansed. Greek. _katharizo._ WITH THE WASHING. by (no preposition: dative case) the laver....
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
_sanctify and cleanse_it] Better, again, HER. And the pronoun is slightly emphatic by position; as if to say, "It was in _her_interest that He did this, and so in the wife's interest the husband shoul...
ἽΝΑ ΑΥ̓ΤῊΝ ἉΓΙΆΣΗΙ ΚΑΘΑΡΊΣΑΣ ΤΩ͂Ι ΛΟΥΤΡΩ͂Ι ΤΟΥ͂ ὝΔΑΤΟΣ. “That he might expressly claim her for Himself after cleansing her by the bathing with the water.” Cleansing and sanctifying are two results of...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΆΓΙΆΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΓΙΆΖΩ (G37) освящать, отделять (EDNT; TDNT). _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель. О связи этого слова со свадебной церемонией _см._ Barth. ΚΑΘΑΡΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ Κ...
DISCOURSE: 2122 THE PERFECTING OF THE CHURCH IS THE END OF ALL THAT CHRIST HAS DONE FOR IT Ephesians 5:25. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with...
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT, &C.— "That he might take away the power and pollution of sin from all its members, and infuse a principle of true holiness into them, and so consecrate them to G...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:26) The object of Christ's love for His church was to "make her holy". "Holy" means "to set apart to a purpose." The purpose of the Church is to represent Christ and demonstrate His love as the obj...
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, SANCTIFY - i:e., consecrate her to God. Compare John 17:19, 'I devote myself as a holy sacrifice, that my disciples also...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
5:26 purifying (k-8) Or having purified.' The aorists 'loved' -- 'delivered' -- 'sanctify' -- 'purifying' may be coincident or consequent one on another....
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
WASHING OF WATER] Christian baptism, with perhaps a reference to the bride's bath before marriage. BY THE WORD] RV 'with the word,' to be taken with 'the washing of water' and meaning the baptismal f...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
(25-27) In these verses we trace, under the nuptial metaphor, a clear description of the three great stages in salvation — justification in His “giving Himself for us, sanctification in the “cleansing...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT... — The true rendering is, _that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it in the laver of the water in_ [_the_]_ Word._ The reference in “the laver of the water”...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
ἵνα αὐτὴν ἁγιάσῃ : _that He might sanctify it_. Statement of the great object with which Christ in His love for the Church gave Himself up to death for it. An object worthy of the self-sacrifice, desc...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
The Love of Husbands for Their Wives If the husband exhibits the love talked about in 5:25, most wives would readily submit to him. The love a husband is to have is not erotic or passionate, but inte...
(13) That he might (m) sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the (n) word, (13) Because many men pretend the infirmities of their wives to excuse their own hardness and cruelty, the ap...
_Cleansing it by the laver [3] of water, in the word of life. By this washing is generally understood the sacrament of baptism; and by the word of life, not the word of the gospel preached, but the wo...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. The last few teachings in Ephesians we have concentrated on Christian behavior. 1. Last week, we specifically dealt with the behavior of a Godly wife as it related to her husband....
26._That he might sanctify, _— or, that he might separate it to himself; for such I consider to be the meaning of the word _sanctify _This is accomplished by the forgiveness of sins, and the regenerat...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
Ver. 26 THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT,.... Being defiled, both with original sin and actual transgressions; for God's elect, whom Christ loved and espoused from everlasting, fell in Adam with...
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Ver. 26. _That he might sanctify_] The maids were first purified and perfumed before Ahasuerus chose one. But here it is o...
_That he might sanctify and cleanse it_ Might remove the guilt, power, and pollution of sin; _with the washing of water_ In baptism, as the sign of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, which can only rene...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT WITH THE WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD,...
THE DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS SHOWN BY THE RELATION OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:22 The exhortation with its basis:...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY IT, HAVING CLEANSED IT BY THE WASHING OF WATER WITH THE WORD” “Sanctify”: To make holy. “To make her holy and clean” (Tay). “Before the bride was presented to the bridegroom sh...
22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY; purify from its filth, and consecrate unto God: implying the whole translation of it out of a state of sin and misery into a state of grace and life, consisting in the remissio...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third For the tower was founder on the word of the almighty and glorious Name and it is kept together by the invisible power of the Lord."[15] Tertullian On Modesty the la...
Ephesians 5:26 that G2443 He G846 sanctify G37 (G5661) cleanse G2511 (G5660) washing G3067 water G5204 by...
‘Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word that he might present th...
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
Ephesians 5:26. THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY IT. Not, ‘separate and consecrate for Himself' (Calvin), but, ‘make holy,' as appears from Ephesians 5:27. ‘Both sanctification and purification are dependent on...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY IT (ινα αυτην αγιαση). Purpose clause with ινα and the first aorist active subjunctive of αγιαζω. Jesus stated this as his longing and his prayer (John 17:17-19). This was th...
Ephesians 5:25 I. The love of Christ. None of us, it is truly said, is a stranger to this master emotion of the human soul. Flowing through the earth like streams amid desert sands, shining in life's...
Ephesians 5:22 On Marriage. I. Consider how the earthly and the heavenly views of Christian marriage which the Apostle presents to us are thoroughly one, and cannot be separated. It was an old delusi...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
HE DID THIS. This points to the goal of Christ's self-sacrificing love. TO DEDICATE THE CHURCH. The idea is _to make holy, to set apart for holy use._ BY HIS WORD. The promise attached to baptism (1 P...
_Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church._ THE LOVE OF JESUS FOR HIS CHURCH I. The chosen Church, the object of the Saviour’s love. 1. Observe what this Church was by nature...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:26 The focus in these verses is on Christ, for husbands do not “sanctify” their wives or “wash” them of their sins. SANCTIFY. Set aside for the Lord’s service through cle...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 5:6; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 1:23
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....