Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. WHEREFORE - referring to the whole foregoing argument (Ephesians 5:8; Ephesians 5:11; Ephesians 5:13). Since light (spiritual) dispels the pre-existing darkness, He (God) saith, etc. (cf. Eph. 15:8 .) AWAKE. 'Aleph (') A B Delta G, Origen read [ egeire (G1453), for egeirai (G1453)] 'Up!' 'Rouse thee!' used in stirring men to activity. A paraphrase of...

14._Wherefore he saith. _Interpreters are at great pains to discover the passage of Scripture which Paul appears to quote, and which is nowhere to be found. I shall state my opinion. He first exhibits Christ as speaking by his ministers; for this is the ordinary message which is every day delivered by preachers of the gospel. What other object do they propose than to raise the dead to life? “The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live” (John 5:25.) Let us now attend to the context. “Unbelievers,” Paul had said, “must be reproved, that, being brought forth to the light, they may begin to acknowledge their wickedness.” He therefore represents Christ as uttering a voice which is constantly heard in the preaching of the gospel, Arise, thou that

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 far from being profitable. that they pollute and poison the hearers. Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God's glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in worldly good, which should be in God only. Those who allow themselves, either in the lusts of the flesh or the love of the world, belong not to the kingdom of grace, nor shall they come to the kingdom of glory. When the vilest transgressors repent and believe the gospel, they become children of obedience, from whom God's wrath is turned away. Dare we make light of that which brings down the wrath of God? Sinners, like men in the dark, are going they...

Verse 14. _WHEREFORE HE SAITH_] It is a matter of doubt and controversy whence this saying is derived. Some think it taken from Isaiah 26:19: _Thy dead men shall live; with my dead body shall they arise; Awake_ _and sing, ye that dwell in the dust_, c. Others think that it is taken from Isaiah 60:1: _Arise, shine for thy light is come_, c. But these passages neither give the words nor the meaning of the apostle. _Epiphanius_ supposed them to be taken from an ancient prophecy of _Elijah_, long since lost: _Syncellus_ and _Euthalius_ think they were taken from an apocryphal work attributed to _Jeremiah_ the prophet: others, that they made part of a _hymn_ then used in the Christian Church for that there were, in the apostle's time, hymns and spiritual s...

WHEREFORE HE SAITH - Margin, or “it.” Διὸ λέγει Dio legei. The meaning may be, either that the Lord says, or the Scripture. Much difficulty has been experienced in endeavoring to ascertain “where” this is said. It is agreed on all hands that it is not found, in so many words, in the Old Testament. Some have supposed that the allusion is to Isaiah 26:19, “Thy dead men shall live - awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,” etc. But the objections to this are obvious and conclusive. (1) This is not a quotation of that place, nor has it a “resemblance” to it, except in the word “awake.” (2) The passage in Isaiah refers to a different matter, and has a different sense altogether; see the notes on the

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 momentous matter; he now urges it in a more general sense and on another ground. We ought to forgive men because God has forgiven us—all admit that; but moreover, we ought to imitate our Father in his forgiveness and in his loving spirit, be-because beloved children should always imitate, and will always strive to imitate, what is good in a beloved father. Forgiving love is one of the great glories of our Father; it has been made peculiarly attractive in our eyes, because it has been exercised by him towards us; every consideration, therefore, ought to ind

WHEREFORE HE SAITH,.... Either the man that is light in the Lord, who reproves the unfruitful works of darkness; or else the Holy Ghost by Paul, who here speaks after the manner of the prophets; or God, or the Spirit, or the Scripture; see James 4:6; but where is it said? some think the apostle refers to Isaiah 9:2; others to Isaiah 26:19; others to Isaiah 60:1; some are of opinion the words are cited out of an apocryphal book of Jeremy, or from some writing now lost; and some have thought them to be a saying of Christ, that was fresh in memory: it may not be improper to observe what Maimonides says m, that "the blowing of the tr

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; this is, therefore, a most comely and appropriate precept: «Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children.» Ephesians 5:2. _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 sweet smelling savor._ What a path to walk in! «Walk in love.» What a well-paved way it is! «As Christ also hath loved us.» What a blessed Person for us to follow in that divinely royal road! It would have been hard

EPHESIANS 5:14 evpifau,sei soi o` Cristo,j {A} Instead of “Christ will shine upon you,” strongly supported by a wide range of witnesses, several Western witnesses substitute either “Christ will touch you” or “You will touch Christ.” Apparently the readings arose from the legend that the cross on which Jesus was crucified was erected over the burial place of Adam, who was raised from the dead by the touch of the Savior’s blood. 1 ------------------------- 1 See J. Armitage Robinson, _St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians_ (London, 1903), p. 119, n.l....

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 5:1) 4. Exhortations (Ephesians 5:3) At this point the exhortations to walk in separation begin. The “therefore” of Ephesians 4:17 refers us to the “wherefore” of Ephesians 2:11. What Gentiles are in their natural c