“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption — the paramount warning: mē lypeō ('do not grieve') to pneuma hagion ('the Holy Spirit') by whom esphragisthēte ('you were sealed') eis hēmeran apolutrōseōs ('until the day of redemption,' the eschatalogical completion).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:30
“And grieve not,” he adds, “the Holy Spirit of God.” A matter this more terrible and startling, as he also says in the Epistle to the Thessalonians; for there too he uses an expression of this sort. “He that rejects, rejects not man, but God.” 1 Thessalonians 4:8 So also here. If you utter a reproachful word, if you strike your brother, you are not striking him, you are “grieving the Holy Spirit.” And then is added further the benefit bestowed, in order to heighten the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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