Verse 5
c. Servants and Masters, Ephesians 6:5-9 .
5. Servants See note, Luke 7:2. Alford thinks the word should have been translated slaves, but Macknight more nobly rejoices that the word servants is used, as including generically both bondservants and employees. Paul so exalts the motives on which the servant should act, as well to suit both the bondsmen by compulsion and the bondsman by an agreement to furnish service.
According to the flesh As Christ is your master according to the spirit.
Fear and trembling Not in terror of the masters, but as unto Christ, as the Corinthians received Titus, 2 Corinthians 7:15; and as we should all work out our own salvation.
Unto Christ Not as to a human master, who has, indeed, no natural right to your service, but unto Christ; to whose name it is due that you should be a true and honest servant. So employees of all kinds, whether domestics, clerks, or workmen, should serve their employers with conscientious feeling that in serving them truly they were serving Christ.
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