Taken from Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise) Cross References 58 Footnotes 6 Chapter Summary INTRODUCTION TO ePHESIANS The city of Ephesus is, by Pliny {a}, called the other light of Asia; Miletus was one, and Ephesus the other: it was the metropolis of the lesser Asi...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) 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 God." The phrase "the life of God" is unique...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.--In this verse the two meanings again unite. In the original the order is emphatic: "Through Him we have the access, both of us in one Spirit, to the Father." The greater...
F.F. Bruce,The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians(New International Commentary on the New Testament; Eerdmans, 1984), p. 324-325. Patriacan refer to "people linked over a relatively long period of time by line of descent to a common progenitor, family, clan,...
i.第一次被圣灵充满,是一种奇妙美好又意义深远的经历。这种经历通常被视作“圣灵的洗”(太3:11;徒1:5;11:16)。对每一位信徒来说,这是一种有效的、重要的经历。 ii.我们属灵生命中的软弱、失败和昏睡冷漠,大部分都可以归咎于一个事实:我们没有不断地被圣灵充满。
b.要在主里……这是理所当然的:关于儿女要听从父母,使徒给出两个理由。首先,儿女要在主里听从父母。这意味着他们对父母的顺从,是其基督徒顺服责任的一部分,类似于妻子要顺服自己的丈夫,如同顺服主(弗5:22)。第二个理由很简单,因为儿女听从父母,是理所当然的。