The food we take is incorporated, and becomes part of our wonderful body: the salts, the alkalis, the different elements in food, are all carried by the arteries and veins to the different parts, and the stream of life lands and deposits each cargo of supplies at the wharfs along the shore. He has in him the lower nature of the flesh, with its appetites and its passions, by which he is fast bound in the chains of this material world; and that flesh must be subdued to the spirit, to the indestructible will, to that superior power of … ), A convict condemned to die was visited in his cell at different times by ministers and Christian philanthropists, who tried to awaken him to a proper sense of his condition, and to prepare him for his end; but none of them succeeded in making any impression upon him. The Christian life is not about 'me', 'myself' and 'I' but is all about the Lord Jesus Christ and God's purpose and plan in bringing many sons to glory through HIM - by means of His sacrificial work at Calvary. If our relations with our fellow-Christians were only occasional and accidental, it would be vain to think that our truthful discharge of those relations could ensure growth in the whole spiritual life; but the true Christian cannot be merely in occasional and accidental contact with those who are radically united to him in Christ. The verb epichoregein comes from the noun choregos, which literally means the leader of a chorus. See Revelation 2:4-5 and notes. p. 368. Lastly, the church is to have a mindset of growth. In still later Greek, in the papyri, the word is common in marriage contracts and describes the support that a husband, out of his love, undertakes to give his wife. The hand, indeed, does not support the body, like the foot; but it supplies the food, and helps it in many ways. Departure from love, if it be more than temporary, will involve some departure from the truth. (G. S. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/ephesians-4.html. 15.] 1999-2014. speaking the truth. 1999), Vincent adds that "The present participles (being fitted and held together) denote present, continuous progress. New York. But speaking the truth] Or, doing the truth, as the Vulgate hath it, αληθευοντες. 1832. The purpose and plan of God from the beginning is that Christ is all in all. in love — “Truth” is never to be sacrificed to so-called “charity”; yet it is to be maintained in charity. “Speaking truth in love”: “But we shall lovingly hold to the truth” (Wey). "Commentary on Ephesians 4:15". He adds that the ultimate goal is to bring all believers into the unity of the faith and a knowledge of the Son of God, so that the body of Christ becomes spiritually mature as we are daily being conformed into a measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.. until He is all in all. Rev., in margin, dealing truly. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". II. Renewal 1960. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. "Rather than being children, we must grow up to Christ's full stature!" Soph. Harless connects εἰς αὐτόν with ἐν ἀγάπῃ—“in love to Him.” But the position of the words forbids such a connection; and though the hyperbaton were allowable, the idea brought ought by such an exegesis is wholly out of harmony with the train of thought. 1905. The very bulb at the root of the hair is fed, and without that nourishment it would not grow. Why preachers should be faithful in the way I have pointed out. With forked tongues the flames rise through the smoke that opens, as the wind blows it aside, to show that great old man standing up firm in the fiery trial. He has in him the lower nature of the flesh, with its appetites and its passions, by which he is fast bound in the chains of this material world; and that flesh must be subdued to the spirit, to the indestructible will, to that superior power of reason, to that clear voice of conscience, to that glowing spirit of love, by which alone he is able to rise above the material world. Truth spoken without love can destroy the one who uses it! And he meant more than the mere cultivating of a truthful spirit. And use well what you have. It was so, when the Pharisees said of our Blessed Lord, “This man receiveth sinners.” Then you may speak the truth in envy. Ephesians 4:3 Preservation of Unity is in favour of a wide extension of meaning to truth in all relations of life. The blessed fruits of the fellowship into which we enter inwardly and spiritually in our union with Christ, and visibly and outwardly in our public profession of faith as members of the Christian Church, can only be manifested by truthfulness and loyalty. Many Christians live aimlessly in this world. In the face of these examples, there is no occasion, with De W. and Ellic., to suppose that the Apostle places χρ. fitly framed and knit together’. Not by being puffed up, but by being built up. The men who undertook these duties out of their own pocket and out of love for their city were called choregoi, and choregein was the verb used for undertaking such a duty. of Christ. So in the church. They’re inseparable twins! A few illustrations of speaking the truth in love. Ephesians 4:13. ὅς ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλὴ χριστός] significant more precise definition and very emphatic naming of the subject intended by εἰς αὐτόν, although this subject was self-evident. sense. 6. The moral restoration of man is restoration to perfect love. Ephesians 4:1 Calling to Unity for His possession, as Colossians 1:16 τὰ πάντα … εἰς αὐτὸν ἔκτισται, or [3] ‘into Him,’ into closer and closer union until at last our incorporation is complete. also Beza and Matthies). He put the things more forcibly than we have it in our Bibles; using an idiom which cannot be rendered well in our English tongue; at least in a single word. The truth of God should be so preached to all the members of the Church of God, that they may all receive an increase of grace and life; so that each, in whatever state he may be, may get forward in the way of truth and holiness. . but (opposition to the whole last verse; introducing as it does, not only ἀληθεύοντες ἐν ἀγάπῃ, but the αὐξήσωμεν below) being followers of truth ( ἀληθεύειν cannot here mean merely to speak the truth, as the whole matter dealt with is more general; the particular follows, Ephesians 4:25. Christ (5547) (Christos from chrio= to anoint, rub with oil, consecrate to an office) is the Anointed One, the Messiah, Christos being the Greek equivalent of the transliterated Hebrew word Messiah. It is easy to express devoted interest by voice and look, and to be a dissembler. The Head is put in the way of a distinct clause. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jab/ephesians-4.html. To be honest this will take a lifetime, but why stop? λ. 25, Isaiah 44:26, may be traced back. See Hartung, Partikell. grow up — from the state of “children” to that of “full-grown men.” There is growth only in the spiritually alive, not in the dead. For previously it had been said, into Him; though ὁ χριστὸς is nevertheless afterwards mentioned at the end very emphatically, as if he were to say, Christ is (the) Christ. And the truth here contemplated is the truth of God, the truth of the Gospel, which we are to profess and abide by. It should not be done in a harsh and repulsive manner; it should not he done as if he rejoiced that people were in danger of hell, or as if he would like to pass the final sentence; it should not be with indifference, or in a tone of superiority.
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