Verse 32
32. The and shows that this verse, together with Ephesians 5:1-2, is the completion of 31, as 30 is of 29. The therefore of the next verse, Ephesians 5:1, does not imply transition to a new paragraph.
Be ye Rather, become ye. Thisdoes not imply, as Alford and Braune (Schaff’s Lange) imply, any particular late transgression in these respects by the Ephesian Christians, but only that their transition from Gentilism to a perfect Christianity was a perfecting process, a becoming.
Kind The Greek word that so nearly resembled Christ (Chrestos) that pagans confounded it and Christians boasted it. Note on Acts 18:2.
As God All in common had been forgiven, and could, therefore, mutually forgive. And in the two following verses St. Paul carries out into striking detail this following our divine model, God.
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