“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”
Therefore each of you must put away falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body — the virtue commands begin with the negation of pseudos ('falsehood'): laleo alētheia ('speak truth') prosthe plēsion ('to each neighbor,' the community), justified by the metaphor of the body's interdependence.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:25
Having spoken of the “old man” generally, he next draws him also in detail; for this kind of teaching is more easily learned when we learn by particulars. And what says he? “Wherefore, putting away falsehood.” What sort of falsehood? Idols does he mean? Surely not; not indeed but that they are falsehood also. However, he is not now speaking of them, because these persons had nothing to do with them; but he is speaking of that which passes between one man and another, meaning…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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