“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil — the reason: exagorazō ('make the most of,' 'buy up,' redeem) ton kairon ('the opportunity,' the fitting time), dia to ta hemeroi pneuma ('because the days are evil,' eschatological urgency), a realized urgency.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:16
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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