Ephesians 6:12

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 6:12-13

DISCOURSE: 2127TO WITHSTAND THE POWER OF SATANEphesians 6:12-13. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye way be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.IN persuading men to undertake any arduous office, and more especially to enlist into the army, it is customary to keep... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:1-24

Chapter 6Now parent-child relationships,Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right ( Ephesians 6:1 ).That "in the Lord" I think is important. If your parents are not godly and if your parents are demanding you to do things or requiring you to do things that are improper from a spiritual base, then I do not believe that obedience is required. But obey your parents in the Lord.There is the higher conscience to God, where we must obey God rather than man. If what is being required... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 6:1-24

Ephesians 6:1-3 . Children, obey your parents, because they are your parents, who gave you birth, and nourished you with food and fond affection in all your tender years. Their age and experience qualify them to guide and command, and in all their domestic regulations they aim solely at your good. If you disobey them in their wise and just commands, you disobey the Lord, whom your parents represent. Therefore love them, as they love you; and honour them with reverence and filial obedience.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ephesians 6:12

Ephesians 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities.The invisible enemies of manDoes it not appear, philosophically speaking, a somewhat violent assumption to decide that man is really the highest being in the created universe, or, at least, that between man and his Maker there are no gradations with different moral colourings of intermediate life? Would it not be, rather, reasonable to suppose that the graduated series of living beings, graduated as it is so... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 6:12

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places . Ver. 12. Not against flesh and blood ] Hereby the apostle meaneth not so much the corruption as the weakness of our natures, q.d. We have not only to conflict with weak, frail men, but with puissant devils. Look to it therefore, and lie open at no place; but get on every piece of this spiritual armour,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ephesians 6:12

wrestle: Luke 13:24, 1 Corinthians 9:25-Daniel :, 2 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:4 flesh and blood: Gr. blood and flesh, Matthew 16:17, 1 Corinthians 15:50, Galatians 1:16 principalities: Ephesians 1:21, Ephesians 3:10, Romans 8:38, Colossians 2:15, 1 Peter 3:22 against the: Ephesians 2:2, Job 2:2, Luke 22:53, John 12:31, John 14:30, John 16:11, Acts 26:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Colossians 1:13 spiritual wickedness: or, wicked spirits high: or, heavenly, Ephesians 1:3 Reciprocal:... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.For our wrestling is not only, not chiefly, against flesh and blood - Weak men, or fleshly appetites.But against principalities, against powers — The mighty princes of all the infernal legions. And great is their power, and that likewise of those legions whom they command.Against the rulers of the world — Perhaps... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:12

12. Wrestle The wrestle is to us. But as the wrestle requires no armour, St. Paul uses the word in the more extended sense of struggle. Flesh and blood Of which human bodies are composed, and which metal weapons mar and destroy. The real battle is super-earthly, in which men are the prizes of the victor, Christ or Satan. And St. Paul, in this picture of the war, looks upon men not as the true enemies, but as the proper objects, of salvation. The wrestle is not with physical... read more

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