Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:8
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Ephesians5:8
8 For ye were sometimes darkness , but now are ye light in the Lord : walk as children of light .
The same as in darkness, Rom. 2.19. and 1 Thess. 5.4. viz. the darkness of sin, ignorance, unbelief. The abstract's being put for the concrete, shews the greatness of that darkness in which they were.
Either now being in Christ ye are light, or rather ye are enlightned, or made light by Christ, being furnished with Spiritual Knowledge, Faith, Purity and Holiness.
An Hebraism; children of light, for those that are in the light; 1 Thess. 5.5. q. d. let your conversation be suitable to your condition and privileges, see 1 Ioh. 1.7.
Marginal references: 2 Cor. 3.18.; Luk. 16.8. Joh. 12.36.
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