Robertson Word Pictures - Ephesians 5:5 - 5:5

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Ye know of a surety (iste ginōskontes). The correct text has iste, not este. It is the same form for present indicative (second person plural) and imperative, probably indicative here, “ye know.” But why ginōskontes added? Probably, “ye know recognizing by your own experience.”

No (pāṡ̇ou). Common idiom in the N.T. like the Hebrew= oudeis (Robertson, Grammar, p. 732).

Covetous man (pleonektēs, pleon echō). Old word, in N.T. only here and 1Co 5:10.; 1Co 6:10.

Which is (ho estin). So Aleph B. A D K L have hos (who), but ho is right. See note on Col 3:14 for this use of ho (which thing is). On eidōlolatrēs (idolater) see note on 1Co 5:10.

In the Kingdom of Christ and God (en tēi basileiāi tou Christou kai theou). Certainly the same kingdom and Paul may here mean to affirm the deity of Christ by the use of the one article with Christou kai theou. But Sharp’s rule cannot be insisted on here because theos is often definite without the article like a proper name. Paul did teach the deity of Christ and may do it here.