Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Do the same things unto them--i.e., treat them as flesh and blood like yourselves, having, as men, the same claims on you as you on them; "do unto them as ye would that they should do unto you." The parallel passage in the Colossian...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Put on the entire amour of God. Chained to a soldier, the apostle's mind would go forth naturally to the subject of amour and warfare. Put on amour, for life is a battle-field; not a scene of soft enjoyment and ease, but of hard conflict, with foes wi...
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ruler.53This accords well with the meaning of the Hebrew wordrōsh54and seems natural to us since our English usage includes such concepts as "head of the house, corporate head, head of state," etc. However, when we turn to Greek we find that "in ...
Paul. Each particular clause is itself encumbered with numerous prepositional modifiers (especially with en and syn) of which it is difficult to state the exact meaning. Often, too, several synonyms are in juxtaposition and in very many cases a noun has an explanatory genitive, the sense of ...
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...
Social representations theory (SRT) refers to an approach within social psychology focusing on systems of beliefs, concepts, and values that establish social order and allow for individuals and groups to identify and understand themselves vis-à-vis others. It involves the ascription of meaning to ...
there is this thunderous sound of voices all jockeying for position to be heard. There are no shortages of commentary and opinions on the recent events in Orlando and other headlines. People are talking, people are arguing, people are asking questions, people are providing “answers”; everyone...
Commentators tell us that they can distinguish differences of meaning between the words, in that the first of them is the more active and outward, and the last of them is the more inward. And so they liken them to fruit and branch and root; but we need simply say that the gathering ...
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...