“Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”
And find out what pleases the Lord — the believers' task: dokimazō ('test,' 'discern') ti euareston ('what is pleasing') tō kyriō ('to the Lord'), the discernment of God's will.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:10
“For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord.” “In all goodness,” he says: this is opposed to the angry, and the bitter: “and righteousness”; this to the covetous: “and truth”; this to false pleasure: not those former things, he says, which I was mentioning, but their opposites. “In all”; that is, the fruit of the Spirit ought to be evinced in everything. “Proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord”;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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