Of his flesh and of his bones
(εκ της σαρκος αυτου κα εκ των οστεων αυτου). These words are in the Textus Receptus (Authorized Version) supported by D G L P cursives Syriac, etc., though wanting in Aleph A B 17 Bohairic. Certainly not genuine.
EPHESIANS 5:30 auvtou/ {A} Although it is possible that the shorter text, which is supported by early and good witnesses (including î46 a* A B 33 81 1739* copsa, bo), may have arisen by accidental om...
Verse 30. _WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY_] He has partaken of _our_ nature, as we have partaken of the nature of _Adam_. And as he is the head of the Church and the Saviour of this _body_; so we, being m...
FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY - Of the body of Christ; see 1 Corinthians 11:3, note; 1 Corinthians 12:27, note; John 15:1, notes, and...
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)...
MEMBERS. See Ephesians 4:25. Compare Romans 12:4, Rom 12:5. 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:27. of His body
_members_ LIMBS; the word used above Ephesians 4:25; and cp. Romans 12:4-5; 1 Corinthians 6:15 (a strict parallel),...
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...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
ὍΤΙ ΜΈΛΗ ἘΣΜῈΝ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΏΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. Cf. Ephesians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:27. In Romans 12:5 we are ‘mem
ΜΈΛΗ пот _pl. от_ ΜΈΛΟΣ (G3196) член....
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: 2123 UNION WITH CHRIST Ephesians 5:30. _We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones_. THAT the eternal Son of God assumed our nature, and lived and died for the salvation of...
FOR WE ARE MEMBERS, &C.— The Apostle had here two things in view; the one was, to press men to love their wives, by the example of Christ's love to his church; and the force of the argument lay in thi...
_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....
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For [ hoti (G3754)] 'Because' (1 Corinthians 6:15) Christ nourisheth and cherisheth the Church 'Because we are For [ hoti (G3754)] -...
__ 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...
'Christ cherishes the Church, because its members are His.' The words 'of His flesh and of His bones' are an interpolation from Genesis 2:23....
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...
EVEN AS THE LORD THE CHURCH: FOR WE... — Again St. Paul escapes from the type to rest on the Antitype (see Ephesians 5:32). The idea of the natural rearing and cherishing the body suggests the thought...
[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...
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...
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...
ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ : _for we are members of His body_. The μέλη, which is the heart of the statement, has the emphatic position. We are not something apart from Christ, nor do we occupy...
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....
Reasons a Man Should Love His Wife Christ actually put the love of the church above the love of his own body when he died on Calvary. In marriage, man and woman become one, thus when the husband loves...
For we are members of his body, (q) of his flesh, and of his bones. (q) He alludes to the making of the woman, which signifies our union with Christ, which is accomplished by faith, but is signified...
He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. St. Paul would have this a love like that which a man hath for himself, or for his own flesh, when they are now joined in wedlock, and are become as it were on...
(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....
30._For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. _First, this is no exaggeration, but the simple truth. Secondly, he does not simply mean that Christ is a partaker of our nature, bu...
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 WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY,.... Not of his natural body, for this would make Christ's human nature monstrous; Christ, as man, is of our flesh and of our bones, or a partaker of the same flesh and...
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Ver. 30. _Of his flesh, and of his bones_] While he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:17. This union is neither...
Eph. 5:30-32. "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one fles...
But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has led us: _So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies_ That is, as themselves, or a part of themselves; the bond of marriag...
MEMBERS OF HIS BODY; so that he loves and cherishes us as his own flesh....
Further application of the comparison:...
FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, OF HIS FLESH, AND OF HIS BONES....
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...
“BECAUSE WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY” The point being, if Christ takes such care of us, because we are members of his body (the church), then the husband must take care of his wife, for the married co...
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...
WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY; his mystical body. OF HIS FLESH, AND OF HIS BONES; as Eve was of Adam s, GENESIS 2:23; only that was in a carnal way, this in a spiritual, as by the communication of Christ...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V from which things the substance of our flesh is increased and supported, how can they affirm that the flesh is incapable of receiving the gift of God, which is life e...
Ephesians 5:30 For G3754 are G2070 (G5748) members G3196 His G846 body G4983 of G1537 His G846 flesh...
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...
‘For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church, because we are members of His body.' A man takes great care of his own body, and nourishes and che...
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...
Ephesians 5:30. BECAUSE WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY. The thought is quite familiar (see marginal references); here it gives a reason for Christ's nourishing and cherishing His Church; it is His mystica...
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...
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...
FOR WE ARE MEMBERS. Adam used this language about Eve: "She is bone out of my bones and flesh out of my flesh" (Genesis 2:23_ Zamenhof)._ We are _in fact_ parts of _that body_ of which Christ is _the...
_For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones._ MEMBERSHIP IN CHRIST’S BODY I. The nature of membership with the body of Christ. 1. Members of the Church of Christ are such nominal...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:28 The BODY for which Christ sacrificed himself was the church. ⇐...
_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 12:12; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Colossians 2:19; Ephesians 1:23;...
Omit of His flesh and of His bones....
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....
For we — The reason why Christ nourishes and cherishes the church is, that close connexion between them which is here expressed in the words of Moses, originally spoken concerning Eve. Are members — A...