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Eph 5:13. Δὲ) but; although those things cannot be spoken of or named.-ἐλεγχόμενα, reproved) by you, Eph 5:11.-ὑπὸ τοῦ φωτὸς φανεροῦται, are made manifest by the light) φάος, φανερός, are conjugates.-φανεροῦται, are made manifest) that their shamefulness may be known, whether those who have been guilty of doing them treat their reprovers with scorn or repent of them.-πᾶν, everything) The abstract for the concrete; for the subject here is the man himself; comp. the following verse, wherefore [He saith, Awake, etc., which proves that the πᾶν here refers to the man reproved].-γὰρ, for) For makes an emphatic addition [Epitasis[81]] in a gradation.-τὸ φανερούμενον, an Antanaclasis [the same word in a twofold sense], for φανεροῦται is passive; φανερούμενον is middle,[82] what does not avoid being made manifest; comp. afterwards ἔγειραι, and ἀνάστα.-φῶς, light) a Metonymy, as Eph 5:8.[83]-ἔστι, is) becomes, and afterwards is light.
[81] Πάντα virtually repeated in πᾶν with the Epitasis of γὰρ added to the latter, so forming a gradation.-ED.
[82] Everything which allows itself to be made manifest. Not as Eng. V., which takes it actively, Whatsoever doth make manifest.-ED.
[83] Abstract for the concrete-is light, for, is luminous-is a child of the light.-ED.