Ephesians 5:7 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:7

“Be not ye, therefore, partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord.” Observe how wisely he urges them forward; first, from the thought of Christ, that you love one another, and do injury to no man; then, on the other hand, from the thought of punishment and hell-fire. “For you were once darkness,” says he, “but are now light in the Lord.” Which is what he says also in the Epistle to the Romans; “What fruit then had ye at that time in the…