“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,”
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking — Paul's stern command (oun legō, 'I say then,' 'I insist') forbids the Gentile believers to peripateo ('walk,' conduct themselves) as the ethnē ('nations,' pagan Gentiles), en mataiotes ('in futility,' emptiness) of their dianoia ('thinking,' their distorted understanding).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:17
It is the duty of the teacher to build up and restore the souls of his disciples, not only by counseling and instructing them, but also by alarming them, and delivering them up to God. For when the words spoken by men as coming from fellow-servants are not sufficient to kindle the soul, it then becomes necessary to make over the case to God. This accordingly Paul does also; for having discoursed concerning lowliness, and concerning unity, and concerning our duty not to rise…
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