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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 5:1 - 5:1
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Eph 5:1-33. Exhortations to love: And against carnal lusts and communications. Circumspection in walk: Redeeming the time: Being filled with the spirit: Singing to the Lord with thankfulness: The wife’s duty to the husband rests on that of the Church to Christ.
therefore - seeing that “God in Christ forgave you” (Eph 4:32).
followers - Greek, “imitators” of God, in respect to “love” (Eph 5:2): God’s essential character (1Jo 4:16).
as dear children - Greek, “as children beloved”; to which Eph 5:2 refers, “As Christ also loved us” (1Jo 4:19). “We are sons of men, when we do ill; sons of God, when we do well” [Augustine, on Psa 52:1-9]; (compare Mat 5:44, Mat 5:45, Mat 5:48). Sonship infers an absolute necessity of imitation, it being vain to assume the title of son without any similitude of the Father [Pearson].