Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:27
That he might present it — Even in this world. To himself — As his spouse. A glorious church — All glorious within. Not having spot — Of impurity from any sin. Or wrinkle — Of deformity from any decay.
That he might present it — Even in this world. To himself — As his spouse. A glorious church — All glorious within. Not having spot — Of impurity from any sin. Or wrinkle — Of deformity from any decay.
Verse 27. _THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF_] It was usual to bring the royal bride to the king in the most _sumptuous apparel_; and is there not here an allusion to Psalms 45:13; Psalms 45:14: _T...
THAT HE MAY PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF - In the last day, when he shall receive the church as his spouse to heaven; Revelation 21:9. Perhaps the word “prepare” would better express the sense here than “pre...
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)...
PRESENT. Greek. _paristemi_. See Romans 12:1. IT. The texts read Greek. _autos_. Himself. GLORIOUS. Greek. _endoxos._ Elsewhere, Luke 7:25; Luke 13:17;...
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...
_that he_ In the Gr. "_He_" is emphatic; "He to Himself;" with stress on the Lord's personal action. _present_ Cp. for similar use of the same Gr. word 2 Corinthians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Col
ἽΝΑ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΉΣΗΙ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ι. Cf. 2 Corinthians 11:2. Christ takes the part both of the Bridegroom and of the Bridegroom’s Friend. Cf. Ezekiel 16:10, of Jehovah and Israel. This clause carries on the...
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;...
ΠΑΡΑΣΤΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΠΑΡΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G3936) представлять. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΈΝΔΟΞΟΣ (G1741) славный, великолепный (LN, 1:696). ΈΧΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. асс. fem. sing. от_ Έ...
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...
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...
THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF— The Alexandrian and other copies read, _That he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, without spot,_ &c. The Apostle, to recommend to husbands lov...
_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....
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. HE, ['Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate, read...
__ 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...
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...
'That He might Himself to Himself present the Church all-glorious': cp. 2 Corinthians 11:2, of St. Paul's presenting the Corinthian Church to Christ....
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...
THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF. — The original is more emphatic — _that He might Himself present it to Himself._ This presentation belonged usually to the “paranymph,” or “friend of the bridegroo...
(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...
(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...
[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...
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...
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.
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...
ἵνα παραστήση αὐτὴν [αὐτὸς] ἑαυτῷ ἔνδοξον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν : _that He might Himself present to Himself the Church, glorious_. Statement of the remote, ultimate object with which Christ “gave Himself up”...
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...
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, (o) not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (o) The Church as it is considered in itself...
_Not having spot or wrinkle. St. Augustine and others expound it of the glorious Church of Christ, in heaven: others even of the Church of Christ in this world, as to its doctrines, sacraments, and di...
(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....
27._That he might present it to himself. _He declares what is the design of baptism and of our being washed. It is, that we may live in a holy and unblamable manner before God. We are washed by Christ...
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...
THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH,.... There is a presentation of the church by Christ to his Father at his death, when he gathered the elect together in one, brought them nigh, an...
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Ver. 27. _That he might present_] As Isaac did h...
_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...
One of the great institutions of God for keeping alive in this world and securing to men the benefits of the knowledge and worship of himself, is that of the family; and the feelings and conduct of th...
THE DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS SHOWN BY THE RELATION OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:22 The exhortation with its basis:...
THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT, OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT IT SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH. Of this entire section it has been stated that "i...
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 PRESENT THE CHURCH TO HIMSELF. GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT IT SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH” “Present the church to Himself”: Since the...
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 PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF; hereafter in heaven; that the whole church of the elect may be present with him, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:6,8 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17. A GLORIOUS CHURCH; perfect in knowledge...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth And then the Son of God will be exceeding glad, and shall rejoice over them, because He has received His people pure."[35] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book...
Ephesians 5:27 that G2443 present G3936 (G5661) her G846 Himself G1438 glorious G1741 church G1577 not G3361 havi
‘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 5:27. THAT HE MIGHT HIMSELF PRESENT TO HIMSELF. A slight change of reading gives this sense. This is the purpose of the sanctification (Ephesians 5:24), but also of the giving up of Himself...
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 PRESENT (ινα παραστηση). Final clause with ινα and first aorist active subjunctive of παριστημ (see Colossians 1:22 for parallel) as in 2 Corinthians 11:2 of presenting the bride to t...
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...
IN ORDER TO PRESENT. "Christ makes the church clean, so that at the Day of Judgment he may present her to himself as a bride who is pure and holy! Compare Revelation 19:7-9 and notes....
_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 Peter 1:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Corinthians 4:14;...
He might present it to Himself [π α ρ α σ τ η σ η α υ τ ο ς ε α υ τ ω]. As a bride. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:2. Notice the two pronouns in conjunction, He, to Himself. Christ Himself presents the brid...
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....