Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ephesians 4:20
But ye have not so learned Christ - You have been taught a different thing by Christ; you have been taught that his religion requires you to abandon such a course of life.
But ye have not so learned Christ - You have been taught a different thing by Christ; you have been taught that his religion requires you to abandon such a course of life.
Verse 20. _BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST_] Ye have received the doctrines of Christianity, and therefore are taught differently; ye have received the Spirit of Christ, and therefore are saved from...
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 OLD MAN AND THE NEW. Those who are now members of the true Israel are no longer to walk as Gentiles, _i.e._ in the vanity of mind, the darkness, the alienation from the Divine life which springs f...
I say this and I solemnly lay it upon you in the Lord--you must no longer live the kind of life the Gentiles live, for their minds are concerned with empty things; their understandings are darkened; t...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
HAVE... LEARNED. did... learn....
_ye_ Emphatic by position. _have not … learned_ Better, DID NOT LEARN; at their conversion. "_Learn_" implies the _instruction_then received in the Lord's precepts, and in the holy bearings of His wor...
Practical Results: a spiritual revolution of principle and practice. The Old Man and the New 17. _testify_ A word of solemn appeal occurring elsewhere in N. T. only Acts 22:26 (St Paul speaking) and...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST...
THE CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLE ΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ. Of solemn protest. Acts 20:26 (at Ephesus), Acts 26:22; Galatians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:12.
20. In sharp contrast with this picture of heathen degradation St Paul puts the moral ideal of the Gospel. This illustrates afresh the manifold applicability of St Paul’s fundamental truth. As ‘in Chr...
ΈΜΆΘΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учить. ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ (G5547) Христос. Как иудеи учились Торе, теперь христиане учатся Христу (Lincoln)....
DISCOURSE: 2110 EDUCATION AND WALK OF CHRISTIANS Ephesians 4:20. _But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus_. WE shall...
BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST;— This may, perhaps, intimate, that there was a manner of learning Christ, which might seem more consistent with such irregularities; and may glance on some teachers,...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
(4:20,21) "But" introduces a contrast. We "did not come to know Christ" through self-gratification, but through what we "heard of Him" by other's testimony, and by what we "were taught in Him". All th...
But ye have not so learned Christ; LEARNED CHRIST (). To appropriate Christ Himself is the great lesson of the Christian life: this the Ephesians began at their conversion. "Christ," in His office...
__ Summary of Previous Grace 13 Before the revelation of the secret administration by means of this epistle the saints among the nations were in a period of adolescence. This is fully set forth by t...
UNITY OF THE NEW LIFE. RULES FOR THE NEW LIFE The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation. 1-6...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 4 What Paul taught in Chapter s 1-3 was first about God and his Son Jesus Christ. Then it was about th...
[5. PRACTICAL EXHORTATION (Ephesians 4:17). (1) THE NEW LIFE; first, taught in Christ and learning Christ; and secondly, regenerate in Him to the image of God (Ephesians 4:17). (2) HENCE THE POWER...
YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST. — Better, _ye did not so learn the Christ._ To “learn Christ” is a phrase not used elsewhere; but easily interpreted by the commoner phrase to “know Christ” (see John 14...
CHAPTER 20 THE TWO HUMAN TYPES Ephesians 4:20 BUT as for you!-The apostle points us from heathendom to Christendom. From the men of blinded understanding and impure life he turns to the cleansed an...
A paragraph which takes up again the practical address begun with the first verse of the chapter, but interrupted at Ephesians 4:4, and contains solemn exhortations to withdraw from all conformity wit...
ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐχ οὕτως ἐμάθετε τὸν Χριστόν : _but ye did not thus learn the Christ_. ὑμεῖς, in emphatic contrast with the ἔθνη yet unconverted. The οὐχ οὕτως is an obvious _litotes_, suggesting more than...
PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN” Ephesians 4:20 The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But all is in v...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
The Old Man Walked in Sin If the church would grow to the perfection of Christ, it must turn from walking in the ways of the world. Particularly, Christians would not pursue selfish ways (4:17). When...
(13) But ye have not so learned Christ; (13) Here follows the contrary part concerning men who are regenerated by the true and living knowledge of Christ, who have other principles by which they act...
(17) В¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the...
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...
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play correc...
20._But ye have not. _He now draws a contrast of a Christian life, so as to make it evident how utterly inconsistent it is with the character of a godly man to defile himself regardlessly with the abo...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST,.... Some distinguish these words, and make two propositions of them, "but ye not so", or "ye are not so, ye have learned Christ"; the first of these propositions has...
But ye have not so learned Christ; Ver. 20. _But ye have not so learned Christ_] Caracalla never minded any good, _quia id non didicerat_ (saith Dio), _quod ipse fatebatur, _ because he had never lea...
_But ye_ Believers at Ephesus; _have not so learned Christ_ Or Christianity; that is, ye cannot act thus, now ye are acquainted with Christ and his gospel, which, you know, allows of no sin. _If so be...
LEARNED CHRIST; the knowledge of Christ includes the knowledge of his doctrine; for we know him as our teacher, as well as our Lord and Saviour....
BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST, which He wrought in Christ when he raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,...
An admonition to spiritual renewal:...
Paul's exhortation and supplication for the Church as the body of Christ:...
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
“BUT YE DID NOT SO LEARN CHRIST”: “Far different is the lesson you learnt from the Christ” (TCNT). “But that isn't the way Christ taught you!” (Tay). “BUT”: This repudiates everything about the lifest...
17-24 The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that having professed the gospel, they should not be as the unconverted Gentiles, who walked in vain fancie...
BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED; so as to walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of your minds, &c. CHRIST; the doctrine of Christ, or rule of life prescribed by him....
1 Clement neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,[15] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III "But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that...
Ephesians 4:20 But G1161 you G5210 have G3129 not G3756 so G3779 learned G3129 (G5627) Christ G5547...
‘But you did not so learn Christ.' This is one of Paul's ‘buts' (compare Ephesians 2:4). It heralds a reference to a life transforming change. This kind of behaviour was not the kind that they had bee...
Ephesians 4:20. BUT YE, over against the ‘Gentiles' (Ephesians 4:17), whose walk has been described (Ephesians 4:18-19). DID NOT THUS LEARN CHRIST. The tense is historical, at the time of conversion.
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...
1. _Exhortations based on the Contrast between the Old and New Man._ The exhortation of Ephesians 4:1-3 is resumed, but with all the added force derived from the motives presented in Ephesians 4:4-16....
BUT YE DID NOT SO LEARN CHRIST (Hυμεις δε ουχ ουτως εμαθετε τον Χριστον). In sharp contrast to pagan life (ουτως). Second aorist active indicative of μανθανω....
Ephesians 4:20 I. We have here distinctly affirmed that the living voice of Christ Himself is our teacher. "Ye have heard _Him_" says Paul. Remember that the New Testament everywhere represents Christ...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you_ a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; _that ye walk worthy of the vocation wh...
NOT WHAT YOU LEARNED. The message of the Good News included the command: _You must be holy, because I am holy_ (1 Peter 1:16)....
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:17 Paul’s Testimony. Paul explains the new life in Christ that the Ephesians have experienced. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:17. THAT YE HENCEFORTH WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK.—In this and the two following verses we have again the lurid picture of Ephesians 2:2: “in the van...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 John 2:27; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; John 6:45;...
Have not learned [ο υ χ ε μ α θ ε τ ε]. Rev., giving the force of the aorist tense, did not learn; at the time of your conversion, when you were instructed in Christ's precepts. The phrase learn Chris...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
But ye have not so learned Christ — That is, ye cannot act thus, now ye know him, since you know the Christian dispensation allows of no sin....
In these verses, 1. Our apostle acquaints the converted Ephesians, that the saving knowledge of Christ, which they had received, instructed them better than to practice such licentiousness and wickedn...