Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:15
15. See St. Paul now closes the paragraph, as he did the last, with a deduced admonition. Then Therefore; that is, in view of your office as light to reprove the darkness, held forth in the whole of this closing paragraph. To two things were they to see: First, that they were themselves unreprovable; and, second, that they should be ready in the reproof of prevalent sin. Circumspectly With strictness of rectitude, knowing that critical eyes are upon you. Fools The children of... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:8-17
b. Against their secret and nightly shame be children of light and day, Ephesians 5:8-17 . As the darkness of night is the element in which license and guilt find their covert, so by association of thought license and darkness are conceptually identified; while, on the contrary, truth and purity, as well as knowledge, are conceptually identified with light. These associations of thought are universal in the human mind and in human language. Zoroastrianism makes light and darkness the emblem... read more