“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord — the community life: laleo ('speak') pros heautous ('to one another') in psalmois ('psalms,' biblical songs), hymnois ('hymns,' praises), and ōdais pneumatikais ('spiritual songs'), the entire assembly aido ('singing') and psallo ('making melody') en tē kardia ('from the heart') tō kyriō ('to the Lord').
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:19
“But be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God even the Father; subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.” Do you wish, he says, to be cheerful, do you wish to employ the day? I give you spiritual drink; for drunkenness even cuts off the articulate sound of our tongue; it…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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