Ephesians 5:19

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; TO YOURSELVES. (Colossians 3:16) Hence, arose the antiphonal or responsive chanting of which Pliny writes to Trains: 'They are wont on a fixed day to meet before daylight (to avoid persecution) and to recite a hymn among themselves by turns, to Christ as if God.' The Spirit gives true wine a spurious eloquence. PSALMS - generally accompanied by an instrument [Hebrew, mizmowr (H4210)]: carefully arranged. HYMNS, [ tªhilliym (H8416)] - in direct praise to God (cf....

19._To psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs. _These are truly pleasant and delightful fruits. The _Spirit _means “joy in the Holy Ghost,” (Romans 14:17;) and the exhortation, _be ye filled_, (ver. 18,) alludes to deep drinking, with which it is indirectly contrasted_. Speaking to themselves, _is _speaking among themselves. _Nor does he enjoin them to sing inwardly or alone; for he immediately adds, _singing in your hearts; _as if he had said, “Let your praises be not merely on the tongue, as hypocrites do, but from the heart.” What may be the exact difference between _psalms _and _hymns, _or between _hymns _and _songs, _it is not easy to determine, though a few remarks on this subject shall be offered on a future occasion. (163) The appellation _spiritual, _given to these songs, is strikingly appro

15-21 Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being impossible else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed according to his design. If we have lost our time heretofore, we must double our diligence for the future. Of that time which thousands on a dying bed would gladly redeem at the price of the whole world, how little do men think, and to what trifles they daily sacrifice it! People are very apt to complain of bad times; it were well if that stirred them more to redeem time. Be not unwise. Ignorance of our duty, and neglect of our souls, show the greatest folly. Drunkenness is a sin that never goes alone, but carries men into other evils; it is a sin very provoking to God. The drunkard holds out to his family and to the world the sad spectacle of a sinner hardened beyond what is common, and hast...

Verse 19. _SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES IN PSALMS_] We can scarcely say what is the exact difference between these three expressions. _Psalms_, ψαλμοι, may probably mean those of David. _HYMNS_] υμνοις. Extemporaneous effusions in praise of God, uttered under the influence of the Divine Spirit, or a sense of his especial goodness. See Acts 16:25. _SONGS_] ωιδαις. _Odes_; premeditated and regular poetic compositions; but, in whatever form they were composed, we learn that they were all πνευματικα, _spiritual_-tending to magnify God and edify men. _SINGING AND MAKING MELODY IN YOUR HEART_] The _heart_ always going with the _lips_. It is a shocking profanation of Divine worship to draw nigh to God with the _lips_, while the _heart_ is far from him. It is too often the ca

SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES - Speaking among yourselves, that is, endeavoring to edify one another, and to promote purity of heart, by songs of praise. This has the force of a command, and it is a matter of obligation on Christians. From the beginning, praise was an important part of public worship, and is designed to be to the end of the world; see the notes on 1 Corinthians 14:15. Nothing is more clear than that it was practiced by the Saviour himself and the apostles (see Matthew 26:30), and by the primitive church, as well as by the great body of Christians in all ages. IN PSALMS - The Psalms of David were sung by the Jews at the temple, and by the early Christians (notes...

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

SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES IN PSALMS, AND HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS,.... By psalms are meant the Psalms of David, and others which compose the book that goes by that name, for other psalms there are none; and by "hymns" we are to understand, not such as are made by good men, without the inspiration of the Spirit of God; since they are placed between psalms and spiritual songs, made by men inspired by the Holy Ghost; and are put upon a level with them, and to be sung along with them, to the edification of churches; but these are only another name for the Book of Psalms, the running title of which may as well be the Book of Hymns, as it is rendered by Ainsworth; and the psalm which our Lord sung with his disciples after the supper, is called an hymn; and so are the psalms in general called hymns, by Philo the Jew n; and songs and hymns by Josephus o; and שירות ותושבחות, "songs and praises", o...

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 5:19 wv|dai/j pneumatikai/j {B} In the opinion of a majority of the Committee, it is more likely that pneumatikai/j was accidentally omitted from several witnesses (î46 B itd Ambrosiaster) because of homoeoteleuton, than added in almost all witnesses by assimilation to Colossians 3:16, where the text is firm. The addition of evn ca,riti in A is clearly due to assimilation to Colossians 3:16....

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