), your members) of which united the body of sin consists, ch. ii. 11. [Here all impurity, without exception, is repelled and excluded. — V. g.] — fat rr\g yfa, upon the earth) where they find their support. These things are presently enumerated. — vopveim, x.r.X., fornication, etc.) Eph. v. 3, 4. — vaQog, passion [inordinate affection]) the disorder of lust within. — liei&vpiav, concupiscence) the disorder of the external senses. — rqv vXsovsfy'av, covetousness) The article has the effect of Epitasis [an emphatic addition], and includes the whole genus of vice, which is different from the genus of the species just now enumerated. Avarice most of all makes men cling to the earth.
6. A/' a, for which things) Eph. v. 6.
7. 'E^r?, in which ye lived) as if in your essential first principle, origin, \i.e. these sins were the very air which you breathed from your birth, they were your] native element. Comp. Gal. v. 25, on the spiritual life.
8. Ka/ vpefg, ye also) This answers to the ye also, ver. 7. In ver. 7 it was, ye also, as well as the other " children of unbelief" (4 disobedience'). In ver. 8 it is, ye also, as well as other believers. — ra-ravra) all old things, especially anger, etc. So in the antithesis, above all, ver. 14. — opyyv, Qvpw, anger, harshness or cruelty [Beng. translates Mpov, scevitia, Engl. Vers., wrath]) Eph. iv. 31 [where also Qvfiov is scevitia, harshness], — /tax/an) faults connected with the mind [evil-disposition] ; for example, suspicion, perversity, impatience [Engl. Vers. renders it malice]. — (3Xao<pwiav, a/<r^;poA07/av, blasphemy, filthy communication) The words, Out of your mouth, have respect to these two.
9. M^ 4'fu3g(rt)g, Lie not) Eph. iv. 25, — eii) to, or against. See History of Susanna, ver. 55, 59, s-^svffu e/s rqv (ttaurov Kt<pa,\iiv, thou hast lied against thy own head. — avsxdvffd/uMvoi, having put off) Eph. iv. 22.
10. Tbv v&ov rbv dvaxaivov'Asvov, the new man reneived) Ib., ver 24, note. — i!c tniyvuGtv, to [or in] knowledge) of the truth (ch. i. 6, 9, 10), by which all love of lying is destroyed. — XO.T s/xova, according to the image) This image consists in perfect truth. — roD xriffavroi; aurov, of Him that created him [viz. the new man]) i.e. of God, Eph. iv. 24 : compare ib., ch. ii. 10. Regeneration is indicated by the word ' creation,' from which the image results.
11. "OTOU) where, i.e. in whom, or in which thing. — oux 'ivi, there