“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
And live as children of light — the ethical life is peripatēō ('walk') as tekna phōtos ('children of light'), a wisdom/revelation motif, the illuminated life.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:2
The events which are past have greater force than those which are yet to come, and appear to be both more wonderful and more convincing. And hence accordingly Paul founds his exhortation upon the things which have already been done for us, inasmuch as they, on Christ's account, have a greater force. For to say, “Forgive, and you shall be forgiven” Matthew 6:14, and “if you forgive not, you shall in nowise be forgiven” Matthew 6:15 — this addressed to men of understanding, and…
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