Verse 3
Second Contrast Sins of the Flesh, Ephesians 5:3-21.
a. Against Gentile uncleanness, remembering God’s judgment, beware, Ephesians 5:3-7 .
3. But Marking the transition to a new volume of iniquity in the anti-Church of Gentilism, to be avoided by the Church of Christianity.
Fornication All sexual sin.
Uncleanness All disgraceful vice or flagitiousness; vice that infringes most against the sense of decency, decorum, or honour. Hence it covers the territory between sexual vice and dishonest greed of gain, and is on its opposite sides allied to each.
Covetousness Note on Ephesians 4:19. In both cases it should be rendered as here.
Once named Let these vices be so far from you that the very allusion to them shall cease. It is not so much the verbal naming that is forbidden, as the behaviour and thoughts that induce their naming. The effort should be to render such vices unthought of, strange, and surprising.
Becometh saints As befits a holy community.
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