“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise — the exhortation: akribōs ('very carefully,' 'precisely') peripateuō ('walk,' conduct), not as asophoi ('foolish') but as sophoi ('wise'), the sage/fool binary recalling wisdom literature.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:15
He is still cleansing away the root of bitterness, still cutting off the very groundwork of anger. For what is he saying? “Look carefully how ye walk.” “They are sheep in the midst of wolves,” and he charges them to be also “as doves.” For “you shall be harmless,” says he, “as doves.” Matthew 10:16 Forasmuch then as they were both among wolves, and were besides commanded not to defend themselves, but to suffer evil, they needed this admonition. Not indeed but that the former…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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