Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:8
Ye were once darkness — Total blindness and ignorance. Walk as children of light — Suitably to your present knowledge.
Ye were once darkness — Total blindness and ignorance. Walk as children of light — Suitably to your present knowledge.
Verse 8. _FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES_ (ΠΟΤΕ, _FORMERLY_) _DARKNESS_] While ye lived in darkness, ye lived in these crimes. _BUT NOW_ are ye _light in the Lord_] When ye were in heathenish _darkness_ ye s...
FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS - see the Ephesians 2:11 notes; 1 Corinthians 6:11 note. The meaning here is, that they were themselves formerly sunk in the same ignorance, and practiced the same abomi...
3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Chapter S 4:17-5:21 _ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_ 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication, uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
SOMETIMES. once. DARKNESS. The darkness of blindness. Compare Ephesians 4:18. LIGHT. Not _in_ the light, but having received the Light, _are_ light. App-130. LORD. App-98. CHILDREN. App-108....
_sometimes_ Better, in modern English, ONCE, FORMERLY. SEE ON Ephesians 2:13 above. He refers to the whole period of their unconverted life. _darkness_ Not merely "in the dark". So had the night of sp...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ἮΤΕ ΓΆΡ ΠΟΤΕ ΣΚΌΤΟΣ. St Paul has come back now to the broad contrast between the New and the Old with which he started in Ephesians 4:17. Just as he contrasted their present with their former position...
ΉΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΠΟΤΕ (G4218) прежде, ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043) ходить, вести образ жизни....
DISCOURSE: 2116 A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINED Ephesians 5:8. _Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light_. MANY imagine, that when they have believed in Chri...
YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS,— St. Paul, to express the great darkness in which the Gentiles were, calls them _darkness_ itself. The kingdom of Satan over the Gentile world was _a kingdom of darkness._...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20) 3. Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14. a. Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a. (1) Do no
(5:8) Note in this verse that it does not say that you once walked in darkness. Rather, it says that "you once were darkness". This is not referring to a behavior, but a quality of being. What we once...
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: SOMETIMES - `once.' Ye ought to have no fellowship with sin, which is darkness, for your state as darkn...
__ 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...
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...
(3_b_) Ephesians 5:3 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis, against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to...
YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD. — This expression is unique, and far more emphatic than the more common phrases of “being,” or “walking,” “in darkness” and “in light.” (S...
CHAPTER 23 THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT Ephesians 5:7 The contrast between the Christian and heathen way of life is now, finally, to be set forth under St. Paul's familiar figure of the light and the d...
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...
ἦτε γάρ ποτε σκότος : _for ye were once darkness_. A consideration in support of the previous exhortation, _viz._, the consideration that with them the condition in which such sins could be indulged w...
A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ephesians 5:1 It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our innermost heart to the...
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....
Walking As Children of Light The Ephesian brethren had been involved in the wicked ways of darkness before they obeyed the truth. In Christ, they were light because sin had been put away. So, Paul adm...
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] (c) light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (c) The faithful are called light, both because they have the true light in them which enlightens th...
By _darkness is here meant the state of infidelity into which they had been plunged so far as to adore stones as God, and committed without remorse the above-mentioned grievous sins. But delivered by...
(1) В¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2) And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savo...
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. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on Christian behavior. 1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a "list" of ungodly behavi...
8._For ye were once darkness. _The precepts which immediately follow derive greater weight from the motives with which they are mingled. Having spoken of unbelievers, and warned the Ephesians not to b...
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...
FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS,.... Not only dark, but darkness itself; exceeding blind, dark, and ignorant, respecting spiritual things; so the Gentiles were wont to be called by the Jews, הושך, "dar...
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now _are ye_ light in the Lord: walk as children of light: Ver. 8. _For ye were sometimes darkness_] Which hath in it (as Mr Dugard well noteth): 1. Error. 2. Terr...
_For ye were sometimes_ That is, _once; darkness_ In a state of total blindness and ignorance, without any light of instruction without, or divine grace within, and therefore had some excuse for livin...
DARKNESS; living in ignorance and sin. LIGHT IN THE LORD; enlightened and renewed by virtue of your union with the Lord Jesus. AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT; those who belong to the kingdom of light, of whic...
The children of light avoid the works of darkness:...
FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD; WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT,...
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...
“FOR YE WERE ONCE DARKNESS, BUT ARE NOW LIGHT IN THE LORD: WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT” “For”: God has already given us one very important and motivational reason why we should abstain from such things,...
3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so f...
FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS; the same as in darkness, ROMANS 2:19 1 THESSALONIANS 5:4; viz. the darkness of sin, ignorance, unbelief. The abstract being put for the concrete, shows the greatness of...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I This is the eternal adjustment of the vision, which is able to see the eternal light, since like loves like; and that which is holy, loves that from which...
Ephesians 5:8 For G1063 were G2258 (G5713) once G4218 darkness G4655 but G1161 now G3568 light G5457 in...
‘For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.' Having dealt with the dark side Paul now...
Ephesians 5:8. FOR. TO become partakers with those who indulge in these sins would be a relapse. YE WERE ONCE; ‘were' is emphatic; it is _past_ DARKNESS; ‘not merely living or abiding in it (comp....
III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES. This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a division into two sections i...
_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._ The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close; God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore') fo...
BUT NOW LIGHT (νυν δε φως). Jesus called his disciples the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)....
Ephesians 5:2 , EPHESIANS 5:8 I. "Walk in love." Here we have a command founded upon a reason: "Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us." Yes, of all forces love is the most powerful as a force to act u...
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...
USED TO BE. "When you were heathens, you used to live in darkness, even though you knew secrets and mysteries. But now you have become the Lord's people and are in the light of _truth_! This places an...
_For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light._ THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THEIR OBLIGATIONS I. The degradation from which believers have been raised. A...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:8 WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT. See 1 John 1:5. See also Isaiah 9:2;...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:3. LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED.—After the things themselves are dead let their names never be heard. Ephesians 5:4. NOR JESTING.—“Chastened insolence,” as Ar...
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 1:30; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:8; 1 John 2:9; 1 Peter 2:9;...
Ye were. Emphatic, and according with become of ver. 7. Ye were darkness, but now are ye light. Do not become darkness again. Darkness [σ κ ο τ ο ς]. See on John 1:5. Light [φ ω ς] Light itself; not...
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....
Here the Ephesians are put in mind of the darkness and blindness of their heathen state, before the light of the gospel came among them; they were not only dark, very much in the dark, but darkness it...