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Eph_6:10.[296] After this special table of domestic duties laid down since v. 21, now follows, in a full energetic effusion down to Eph_6:20, a general final exhortation, winding up the whole paraenetic portion of the Epistle (Eph_4:1 ff.).
τὸ λοιπόν ] as concerns the rest, namely, what you have still to do in addition to what has been hitherto mentioned. Comp. 2Co_13:11; Php_3:1; Php_4:8; 1Th_4:1; 2Th_3:1.
ἐνδυναμοῦσθε ἐν κυρίῳ ] denotes the Christian strengthening, which cannot subsist outside of Christ, but only in Him as the life-element of the Christian (Php_4:13). As to ἐνδυναμοῦσθαι , to become strong, gain strength, which is not a middle (“corroborate vos,” Piscator), see on Rom_4:20.
καὶ ἐν τῷ κράτει τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ ] and by means of the might of His strength, which might, namely, must produce the strengthening in you. As to the respective notions, see on Eph_1:19. The καί is not explicative, but annexes to the element, in which the strengthening is to take place, the effective principle of it (2Co_12:9). “Domini virtus nostra est,” Bengel.
[296] On vv. 10–17, see Winzer, Leipz. Pfingstprogramm, 1840.