Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ephesians 4:19
Being past feeling] they ceased to notice the pricks of conscience, and became reckless. In Romans 1:21; We have the same sequence: vanity, darkness, uncleanness.
Being past feeling] they ceased to notice the pricks of conscience, and became reckless. In Romans 1:21; We have the same sequence: vanity, darkness, uncleanness.
EPHESIANS 4:19 avphlghko,tej {A} Instead of avphlghko,tej (from avpalge,w, “become callous, without feeling”), a word appropriate to the figure suggested by pw,rwsij of ver....
Verse 19. 5. _WHO BEING PAST FEELING_] οιτινεςαπηλγηκοτες. The verb απαλγειν signifies, 1. To throw off all _sense of shame_, and to be utterly _devoid of pain_, for committing unrighteous acts. 2....
WHO BEING PAST FEELING - Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total want of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of the state of a sinner. He has no “feeling,” no emotion. He o...
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;...
PAST FEELING. Literally, hardened. Greek. _apalgeo._ Only here. HAVE GIVEN... OVER. gave up. UNTO. to. LASCIVIOUSNESS. See Mark 7:22. TO WORK. unto (Greek. _eis)_ the working. WORK. Greek. _ergasi...
_who being past feeling_ The Gr. relative pronoun indicates a certain conditionality; almost as if it were, "_as being those_who." But the shade is too slight for translation. "_Past feeling_" _:_lit....
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...
ἈΠΗΛΓΗΚΌΤΕΣ, ‘in a state of moral insensibility.’ ‘Past feeling.’ ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΑΝ. Just as in Exodus the narrative speaks at times of Pharaoh’s hardening his heart, and at times of the Lord as harde...
THE CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLE ΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ. Of solemn protest. Acts 20:26 (at Ephesus), Acts 26:22; Galatians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:12.
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST...
ΆΠΗΛΓΗΚΌΤΕΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΆΠΑΛΓΈΩ (G524) прекращать чувствовать боль или горе, покрываться мозолями, становиться нечувствительным (Т). Перевод "утрата чувств" точно передает значение (Abbott)....
WITH GREEDINESS.— The word πλεονεξια, rendered _greediness,_ in its common acceptation, is, "The letting loose our desires to that which we have no right to by the law of justice." But St. Paul, in so...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
(4:19) The third way of grieving the Holy Spirit is to engage in sexual sins ("sensuality") and the pursuit of promiscuous relationships that use others in order to gratify our growing desires. Pornog...
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. WHO BEING, [ hoitines (G3748)] - as being persons who: inasmuch as they. PAST FEELI...
__ 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...
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...
WHO BEING PAST FEELING... — We note that St. Paul, passing lightly over the intellectual loss, dwells on the moral with intense and terrible emphasis. They are (he says) “past feeling”; or, literally,...
CHAPTER 19 ON CHRISTIAN MORALS Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:1 THE WALK OF THE GENTILES Ephesians 4:17 CHRIST has called into existence and formed around Him already a new world. Those who
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...
οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες : _who having become past feeling_. οἵτινες has its usual qualitative or _explanatory_ force, = “who _as_ men past feeling”. The ἀπηλγηκότες is naturally suggested by the πώρωσιν....
BUILDING UP THE “BODY OF CHRIST” Ephesians 4:11 Apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, are the gifts of the risen Christ to His Church. There should be no rivalry among them. Each has hi...
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...
Who being (b) past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with (c) greediness. (b) Void of all judgment. (c) They strove to surpass one another, as though th...
_Who despairing, [4] (without faith and charity) according to the Latin text and some Greek manuscripts; though according to the ordinary Greek, without grief or sorrow, (to wit, for their sins) have...
(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...
19._Who being past feeling. _The account which had been given of natural depravity is followed by a description of the worst of all evils, brought upon men by their own sinful conduct. Having destroye...
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...
WHO BEING PAST FEELING,.... Their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence of judicial hardness; so that they have lost all sense of sin, and do not feel...
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Ver. 19. _Who being past feeling_] Under a dead and dedolent disposition, being despera...
_This I say, therefore_ For your further instruction, how to walk worthy of your calling; (he returns to the subject which he began, Ephesians 4:1;) _and testify in the Lord_ In the name and by the au...
PAST FEELING; having become insensible to moral and religious impressions....
AND WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TO US-WARD WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER, who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work...
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...
“who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness”. “PAST FEELING”: To grieve out, become apathetic. “Lost to all sense of shame” (TCNT). “They have...
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...
WHO BEING PAST FEELING; having lost all sense and conscience of sin: a higher degree or effect of the hardness before mentioned, 1 TIMOTHY 4:2. HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER UNTO LASCIVIOUSNESS; voluntar...
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs III The offerings of the Lord will ye rob, and from His portion will ye steal; and before ye sacrifice to the Lord, ye will take the choicest parts, in despite...
Ephesians 4:19 who G3748 feeling G524 (G5761) given G3860 themselves G1438 over G3860 (G5656) lewdness G766 to...
‘Who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.' Their desire for fleshly pleasures having deadened their feelings they gave themselves up to ev...
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....
Ephesians 4:19. WHO, men of the kind that. BEING PAST FEELING. One word in Greek, meaning to be unsusceptible of pain, and in this connection, referring to moral pain, not feeling the punishment of...
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...
BEING PAST FEELING (απηλγηκοτες). Perfect active participle of απαλγεω, old word to cease to feel pain, only here in N.T.TO LASCIVIOUSNESS (τη ασελγεια). Unbridled lust as in 2 Corinthians 12:21;...
Ephesians 4:19 Spiritual Insensibility. I. There is a certain pitch of wickedness at which moral insensibility comes on; and when _that_comes on, the case becomes almost hopeless. There is little pro...
Ephesians 4:17 The Walk of the Gentiles. I. As to the nature of this walk, one leading feature or characteristic of it is vanity of mind. The life of men walking in the vanity of their minds is eithe...
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...
THEY HAVE LOST. "They are no longer able to feel shame or guilt at the things they do!" THEY GIVE THEMSELVES. See Romans 1:24-32....
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 Peter 4:3; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Peter 2:12; 2 Peter 2:22; Ephesians 4:17
Who [ο ι τ ι ν ε ς]. Explanatory and classifying : men of the class which. Being past feeling [α π η λ γ η κ ο τ ε ς]. Only here in the New Testament. Lit, the verb means to cease from feeling pain. H...
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...
Who being past feeling — The original word is peculiarly significant. It properly means, past feeling pain. Pain urges the sick to seek a remedy, which, where there is no pain, is little thought of. H...