Ephesians 5:8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8

‘For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.’ Having dealt with the dark side Paul now returns to the theme of the Christian’s walk. They did once walk in darkness. They were darkness through and through. Many of them had once participated in such things. Indeed they epitomised ‘darkness’. But now their darkness has turned to light. They are light, as God is (1 John 1:5). They have... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:3-21

Ephesians 5:3-Ecclesiastes : . The Way of Light and the Way of Darkness.— There are other sins which among God’ s people, should be literally unmentionable— fornication, uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jesting. (The true seemliness of speech is thanksgiving.) No one who practises any of the above can inherit the Kingdom. Let no sophistries deceive you; God’ s wrath befalls the disobedient— dissociate yourselves from such things. You have passed from darkness to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 5:8

For ye were sometimes darkness; the same as in darkness, Romans 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:4; viz. the darkness of sin, ignorance, unbelief. The abstract being put for the concrete, shows the greatness of that darkness in which they were. But now are ye light in the Lord; either now, being in Christ, ye are light, or rather, ye are enlightened or made light by Christ, being furnished with spiritual knowledge, faith, purity, and holiness. Walk as children of light; a Hebraism; children of light,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-14

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 5:3. Let it not be once named.—After the things themselves are dead let their names never be heard.Ephesians 5:4. Nor jesting.—“Chastened insolence,” as Aristotle’s description of it has been happily rendered. “Graceless grace” [of style], as Chrysostom called it. It is the oozing out of the essential badness of a man for whom polish and a versatile nature have done all they can.Ephesians 5:5-6. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God, etc.—Look... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:8

Ephesians 5:8 Light in the Lord. I. "Ye were darkness." Assuredly these words ought not to apply to us at all in the same sense in which they applied to the Ephesians, brought into fellowship as we are at our baptisms with Him who is the Light no less than the Life of men and who illuminated them. They ought not to apply to us, and yet must not each of us set our seal to these words as in their measure only too true of him during all the time that he failed to realise to the full his baptismal... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 5:8

DISCOURSE: 2116A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINEDEphesians 5:8. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.MANY imagine, that when they have believed in Christ, the work in them is complete: and, if they were then to die, it is true that they would be complete; because it is said of all believers, “Ye are complete in Christ, who is the Head of all principality and power.” But no man in this world is so complete, but that he still needs to be urged forward,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-33

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5.Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children ( Ephesians 5:1 );Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of chapter 4 where we are exhorted to be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven us. Paul's topic here is God's forgiveness as our example of forgiveness. "Be ye followers of God," or follow the example that God has established for us in... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:1-33

Ephesians 5:1-2 . Be ye followers of God as dear children, for children are expected to walk in their father’s steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good; and if we act otherwise, men will not acknowledge us for the sons of God. In all good offices the Saviour forgot himself, and went about continually doing good. Nay more; he gave himself for us, an eucharistal oblation and sacrifice, a sweet savour of unexampled love. What can words add... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ephesians 5:8

Ephesians 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.The children of light and their obligationsI. The degradation from which believers have been raised. A state of wretchedness resulting: from ignorance to God and disobedience to His will.II. The nobility to which believers have been advanced. The light of truth has shone into their hearts, and exposed to view all the abominations, all the depravity, that lay concealed in the dark chambers of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:8

8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: Ver. 8. For ye were sometimes darkness ] Which hath in it (as Mr Dugard well noteth): 1. Error. 2. Terror. 3. Inconsistency with light. 4. Impossibility of reducing itself to light. But now are ye light ] Semper in sole sita est Rhodos, saith Sylvius. The saints are always in the sunshine. Walk as children of light ] A godly man should be like a crystal glass with a light in the midst, which... read more

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