Ephesians 4:20. But ye, over against the ‘Gentiles' (Ephesians 4:17), whose walk has been described (Ephesians 4:18-19).

Did not thus learn Christ. The tense is historical, at the time of conversion. ‘Not thus ‘is put rhetorically for ‘in an entirely different way.' That different way is detailed in Ephesians 4:22-24. ‘Christ' is the Personal Object they learned, as is evident from Ephesians 4:21. It is not simply ‘the doctrine of Christ; or,' about Christ; ‘the peculiar phrase suggests that in nothing else is a Person so directly and fully the object of the knowledge obtained.

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