Verse 6
6. Eyeservice Service performed only because the eye of the master would detect its omission or slight performance. This is serving the eye and not the interest of the man we profess to serve. Alford quotes an anecdote from the Greek of Xenophon: for which we may give the following condensed equivalent. A farrier being asked what would quickly fatten a horse, replied, “The eye of the master.”
Servants Or, as Alford frankly renders it, slaves, of Christ, who alone has a right to be your master, and, as such, requires your faithful service even to your wrongful masters. For be it noted once for all, that St. Paul does not say of the obedience of slaves as he does of children, this is naturally and intrinsically right. Ephesians 6:1.
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