“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light — the transformation: ēte pote skotos ('you were once darkness,' in the realm of spiritual blindness), nyn phos ('now light,' enlightened), en kyriō ('in the Lord'), therefore peripateuō ('walk') as tekna phōtos ('children of light').
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:8
“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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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