Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Ephesians 6:3 - 6:3
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Eph 6:3. Εὖ σοὶ, well with thee) Let young persons attend to this statement.-καὶ ἔσῃ, and thou mayest [shalt] be) The LXX., in both passages, viz. that in Exodus, and that in Deuteronomy, where the Decalogue is recounted, have it, that thou mayest become long-lived, καὶ ἵνα μακροχρόνιος γένῃ, but Deu 22:7, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest have many days-ἵνα εἆ σοι γένηται χαὶ πολυήμερος ἔσῃ, from the cod. Al., where the ed. Rom. has γένῃ: ἔσῃ, in the future of the subjunctive, is rare. He, who lives well for a long time, long experiences the favour or God, even in his children rendering him honour, and he has a long season of sowing the seed of an eternal harvest.-μακροχρόνιος, long-lived) The more tender age of childhood, according to its capacity of apprehension, is allured by the promise of long life; the exception of the cross is more expressly added to those that are grown up, and are of mature age. But length of days is promised, not only to single persons who honour their parents, but to their whole stock.-ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, upon the earth [the land]) Moses, writing to Israel, says, in the good land, ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀγαθῆς, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. At present godly men live equally well in every land, as Israel did in that which God gave them.