Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the (a) life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
(a) By which God lives in them.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the (a) life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
(a) By which God lives in them.
Verse 18. 2. _HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED_] This is the _second_ instance alleged by the apostle of the degradation of the Gentiles. Having no means of knowledge, the heart, naturally dark, beca...
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED - That is, because they were alienated from the true God, and particularly because of “the blindness of their hearts.” The apostle does not say that this was a “judic...
3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Chapter S 4:17-5:21 _ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_ 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
THE OLD MAN AND THE NEW. Those who are now members of the true Israel are no longer to walk as Gentiles, _i.e._ in the vanity of mind, the darkness, the alienation from the Divine life which springs f...
I say this and I solemnly lay it upon you in the Lord--you must no longer live the kind of life the Gentiles live, for their minds are concerned with empty things; their understandings are darkened; t...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
HAVING... DARKENED. Having been darkened. Greek. _skotizo._ See Rom 1:21. 2 Corinthians 4:4. THE UNDERSTANDING. in the understanding. See Ephesians 1:18. BEING. having been. ALIENATED. Greek. _apall...
_having the understanding darkened_ Lit., HAYING BEEN DARKENED IN THE UNDERSTANDING. On "the understanding" see note above on Ephesians 2:3 (where A.V., "mind"). The Gr. word may fairly be said to mea...
Practical Results: a spiritual revolution of principle and practice. The Old Man and the New 17. _testify_ A word of solemn appeal occurring elsewhere in N. T. only Acts 22:26 (St Paul speaking) and...
ἘΣΚΟΤΩΜΈΝΟΙ. Cf. Ephesians 5:8; Ephesians 5:11; Ephesians 6:12. Darkness is the condition of the Gentile world apart from Christ; cf. Acts 26:18
THE CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLE ΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ. Of solemn protest. Acts 20:26 (at Ephesus), Acts 26:22; Galatians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:12.
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST...
ΈΣΚΟΤΩΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΣΚΟΤΌΩ (G4656) омрачать. _Perf. part._ используется в перифр. обороте, указывающем на постоянное омрачение, ΔΙΑΝΟΊΣΙ (G1271) _dat. sing._ обдумывание, понимание, ра...
BEING ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD,— _The life of God_ seems to signify more than a life prescribed by God to his people, as some understand it. It intimates a life consisting in a righteous and hol...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
(4:18) The second way that we grieve the Holy Spirit is to lose our sensitivity to sin and remain ignorant of truth by remaining untaught in the Word of God and cold to the fellowship of other believe...
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 'Being darkened in their understanding' [ tee...
__ Summary of Previous Grace 13 Before the revelation of the secret administration by means of this epistle the saints among the nations were in a period of adolescence. This is fully set forth by t...
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[5. PRACTICAL EXHORTATION (Ephesians 4:17). (1) THE NEW LIFE; first, taught in Christ and learning Christ; and secondly, regenerate in Him to the image of God (Ephesians 4:17). (2) HENCE THE POWER...
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED. — Of this vanity the first result noted is the intellectual. They are “darkened in the understanding,” and so, “by the ignorance in them alienated from the life of G...
CHAPTER 19 ON CHRISTIAN MORALS Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:1 THE WALK OF THE GENTILES Ephesians 4:17 CHRIST has called into existence and formed around Him already a new world. Those who
A paragraph which takes up again the practical address begun with the first verse of the chapter, but interrupted at Ephesians 4:4, and contains solemn exhortations to withdraw from all conformity wit...
ἐσκοτισμένοι τῇ διανοίᾳ ὄντες : _being darkened in their understanding_. For ἐσκοτισμένοι of the TR, with [435] [436] [437] [438] [439], etc., the more classical form ἐσκοτωμένοι is given in [440] [44...
BUILDING UP THE “BODY OF CHRIST” Ephesians 4:11 Apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, are the gifts of the risen Christ to His Church. There should be no rivalry among them. Each has hi...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
The Old Man Walked in Sin If the church would grow to the perfection of Christ, it must turn from walking in the ways of the world. Particularly, Christians would not pursue selfish ways (4:17). When...
(17) В¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play correc...
18._Being alienated from the life of God. The life of God _may either mean what is accounted life in the sight of God, as in that passage, “they loved the praise of men more than _the praise of God_,...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED,.... Not that the natural faculty of the understanding is lost in men, nor the understanding in things natural and civil, and which is quick enough, especially in thi...
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Ver. 18. _Having the understanding darkened_] B...
_This I say, therefore_ For your further instruction, how to walk worthy of your calling; (he returns to the subject which he began, Ephesians 4:1;) _and testify in the Lord_ In the name and by the au...
THE LIFE OF GOD; which God gives, and which is in communion with God. BLINDNESS; hardness and perversity. Their ignorance then is sinful, because it has a sinful cause....
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED, BEING ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD THROUGH THE IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM, BECAUSE OF THE BLINDNESS OF THEIR HE ART; the eyes of your understanding being enlighten...
An admonition to spiritual renewal:...
Paul's exhortation and supplication for the Church as the body of Christ:...
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
BLINDNESS: Or, hardness...
“BEING DARKENED IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING, ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD, BECAUSE OF THE IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM, BECAUSE OF THE HARDENING OF THEIR HEART” “Being darkened”: “With their powers of disce...
17-24 The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that having professed the gospel, they should not be as the unconverted Gentiles, who walked in vain fancie...
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING; the mind as reasoning and discoursing, and so their ratiocinations and discourses themselves. DARKENED; as to spiritual things. BEING ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD; not only...
2 Clement For sometimes while we are practising evil things we do not perceive it on account of the double-mindedness and unbelief that is in our breasts, and we are "darkened in our understanding"[1...
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III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES. This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a division into two sections i...
1. _Exhortations based on the Contrast between the Old and New Man._ The exhortation of Ephesians 4:1-3 is resumed, but with all the added force derived from the motives presented in Ephesians 4:4-16....
Ephesians 4:18. This verse is made up of four clauses, which may be thus arranged: Being darkened in their understanding, Being alienated from the life of God, Because of the ignorance that is in t...
BEING DARKENED (εσκοτωμενο οντες). Periphrastic perfect passive participle of σκοτοω, old verb from σκοτος (darkness), in N.T. only here and Revelation 9:2; Revelation 16:10.IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING...
Ephesians 4:17 The Walk of the Gentiles. I. As to the nature of this walk, one leading feature or characteristic of it is vanity of mind. The life of men walking in the vanity of their minds is eithe...
Ephesians 4:17 The Life of God. I. Let us see what St. Paul means when he talks about the Gentiles in his day. For that also has to do with us. I said that every man, Christian or heathen, has the sa...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
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IN THE DARK. "They are ignorant of truth and do not know they are ignorant!!!" IN THE LIFE THAT GOD GIVES. _The Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "This cannot mean the _godly life,_ the way of life a...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:17 Paul’s Testimony. Paul explains the new life in Christ that the Ephesians have experienced. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:17. THAT YE HENCEFORTH WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK.—In this and the two following verses we have again the lurid picture of Ephesians 2:2: “in the van...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 John 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...
Understanding [δ ι α ν ο ι α]. See on Luke 1:51. The moral understanding. Life of God [ζ ω η ς]. See on John 1:4. The life which God bestows; life in Christ. See 1 John 5:11. Through the ignorance. T...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
Having their understanding darkened, through the ignorance that is in them — So that they are totally void of the light of God, neither have they any knowledge of his will. Being alienated from the li...