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Eph 5:6. Κενοῖς λόγοις, with vain words) by which the anger of God is despised, and by which men strive to withdraw themselves from their duty, to consider good as nothing, and to extenuate and varnish over evil [in which moreover all things everywhere abound.-V. g.] This is the genus; there are three species at Eph 5:4. So the LXX., μὴ μεριμνάτωσαν ἐν λόγοις κενοῖς, Exo 5:9.-διὰ ταῦτα, because of these things) because of fornication, etc.-ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ, the anger of God) The antithesis to the reconciliation [on God’s part to man, by His forgiving in Christ], Eph 5:2, ch. Eph 4:32.-ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας, on the children of disobedience) in reference to heathenism.