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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 4:22 - 4:22
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That ye - following “Ye have been taught” (Eph 4:21).
concerning the former conversation - “in respect to your former way of life.”
the old man - your old unconverted nature (Rom 6:6).
is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts - rather, “which is being corrupted (‘perisheth,’ compare Gal 6:8, ‘corruption,’ that is, destruction) according to (that is, as might be expected from) the lusts of deceit.” Deceit is personified; lusts are its servants and tools. In contrast to “the holiness of the truth,” Eph 4:24, and “truth in Jesus,” Eph 4:21; and answering to Gentile “vanity,” Eph 4:17. Corruption and destruction are inseparably associated together. The man’s old-nature-lusts are his own executioners, fitting him more and more for eternal corruption and death.