For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:Ye were once darkness — Total blindness and ignorance.Walk as children of light — Suitably to your present knowledge. read more
8. Ye were While Gentiles. Now are ye light Not as illuminated, but as luminous and illuminating. So our Saviour: “Ye are the light of the world.” Children of light In the whole paragraph there is a blending of the double thought of moral and physical light. So our Lord: “Let your light so shine, that men may see your good works.” The children of light are those who are not only the true sons of moral illumination, but are so congenial with the actual light of day that the sun may... read more
b. Against their secret and nightly shame be children of light and day, Ephesians 5:8-17 . As the darkness of night is the element in which license and guilt find their covert, so by association of thought license and darkness are conceptually identified; while, on the contrary, truth and purity, as well as knowledge, are conceptually identified with light. These associations of thought are universal in the human mind and in human language. Zoroastrianism makes light and darkness the emblem... read more
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ephesians 5:8
ye were: Ephesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 4:18, Ephesians 6:12, Psalms 74:20, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 60:2, Jeremiah 13:16, Matthew 4:16, Luke 1:79, Acts 17:30, Acts 26:18, Romans 1:21, Romans 2:19, 2 Corinthians 6:14, Colossians 1:13, Titus 3:3, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 John 2:8 but: Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 60:3, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, John 1:4, John 1:5, John 1:9, John 8:12, John 12:46, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2... read more