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Eph_4:30. Connected by καί with what precedes; hence not, with Lachmann and Tischendorf, to be separated by a full stop from Eph_4:29, by which there would result an exhortation too indefinite in the connection.
And grieve not (which would take place by means of λόγοι σαπροί ) the Holy Spirit of God. Evil discourses are so opposed to the holy nature and aim of the Divine Spirit, who dwells in the Christians, that He cannot fail to be grieved thereat. Comp. Hermas, ii. 10. 3, as also ii. Ephesians 3 : μὴ θλῖβε τὸ πνεῦμα ἅγιον τὸ ἐν σοὶ κατοικοῦν , μήποτε ἐντεύξηται τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἀποστῇ ἀπὸ σοῦ . An anthropopathic conception of the consciousness, with which the Spirit of God is holily affected, of the incongruity of human action with His holiness; but how truly and touchingly in keeping with the idea of the love of God, which bears sway in His Spirit (Rom_5:5)! The man becomes conscious of this grieving of the divine πνεῦμα , when he, who has become through the atonement and sanctification the dwelling-place of the Spirit, no longer receives from this Spirit the testimony that he is the child of God (Rom_8:16). The chosen expression, “the Holy Spirit of God,” renders the enormity of such action most palpable. An allusion, we may add, to Isa_63:10 is not to be assumed, since in that passage the παροξύνειν of the Spirit is characteristic.
ἐν ᾧ ἐσφραγ . εἰς ἡμέραν ἀπολυτρ .] furnishes motive for the exhortation: for if ye have received so great a benefit through the Holy Spirit, how wrong (ungrateful) is it the possibility of losing the seal here hinted at. But to this μὴ λυπεῖτε points less naturally than μὴ παροξύνετε (Isa_63:10) would point to it.
ἐσφραγ .] quite as at Eph_1:13.
εἰς ἡμέρ . ἀπολυτρ .] for the day of redemption; when at the Parousia the certainty of the deliverance unto salvation, indicated by ἐσφραγ ., becomes reality. As to ἀπολύτρωσις , comp. on Eph_1:14; Luk_21:28; also Rom_8:23.