Ephesians 6:6

eyeservice The word is found elsewhere only Colossians 3:22, and was possibly coined by St Paul. It is the "service" which works for another only under the compulsion of inspection, and only in external action.

menpleasers With no higher aim than the personal comfort of getting, anyhow, the master's approval or indulgence. Cp. Galatians 1:10 for a close parallel. The underlying fact is that the earthly master can be "pleased" by a merely specious service, but that the Christian is really enslaved to One who sees infallibly whether the service rendered Him is service of the heart. This comes out in the following clauses.

the will of God expressed in the present fact of your servile duty.

Thus did the Gospel dignify the lowest walk of human life, in the act of imposing the yoke of Christ on the whole being of the Christian.

"A servant with this clause

Makes drudgery divine;

Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws

Makes that and th" action fine."

Herbert, The Elixir.

the heart Lit., the soul. So (Gr.) Colossians 3:23. A spring of innermost good-will, alike to the Heavenly Master and the earthly, must work within. Cp. 1 Timothy 6:1-2.