Robertson Word Pictures - Ephesians 4:21 - 4:21

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Robertson Word Pictures - Ephesians 4:21 - 4:21


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If so be that (ei ge). “If indeed.” Condition of first class with aorist indicatives here, assumed to be true (ēkousate kai edidachthēte).

Even as truth is in Jesus (kathōs estin alētheia en tōi Iēsou). It is not clear what Paul’s precise idea is here. The Cerinthian Gnostics did distinguish between the man Jesus and the aeon Christ. Paul here identifies Christ (Eph 4:20) and Jesus (Eph 4:21). At any rate he flatly affirms that there is “truth in Jesus” which is in direct opposition to the heathen manner of life and which is further explained by the epexegetical infinitives that follow (apothesthai, ananeousthai de, kai endusasthai).