Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:11

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness , but rather reprove them .

Not onely do not practise them your selves, but do not join with others in them, by consent, advice, assistance, or any other way whereby ye may be defiled by them.

By a Meiosis, for bringing forth evil fruit, destructive, pernicious, Rom. 6.21. Gal. 6.8.

Wicked Works, so called because they proceed from darkness in the mind, the Ignorance of God, and Men are put upon them by the Devil the Prince of Darkness, and because they are afraid of the light.

Or convince them, viz. not onely by your words, Lev. 19.17. Mat. 18.13. but especially by your actions, which being contrary to them, will both evidence them to be, and reprove them as being works of darkness.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 5.9. & 10.20.; & 13.12.