Ephesians 81-82_25a_Ephesians 5:9-21
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 22 Part 1: Ephesians 5:9-21. EPHESIANS 5:9-21 April 14, 1982 Ephesians chapter 5 tonight. We open with verse 9 of chapter 9 14 tonight. King James has a parenthesis here. And verse 9 reads in the King James. Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) It is…it, it…it’s not really a parenthesis. There’s another figure of speech, and I’m going to spell this for you because you have perhaps not run into this as frequently as we have a Parenthesis. It’s whenever, it’s…it’s a short parenthesis, something that isn’t a complete parenthesis. It’s a little one, a baby parenthesis. And it’s called Epitrechon. It’s spelled e-p-i-t-r-e-c-h-o-n. It’s a very brief explanatory remark. Now [chuckles] this word “fruit”—“Fruit of the spirit” is King James. It’s a…it’s a figure of speech too. It’s this figure, Hypocatastasis, that we’ve had so frequently in the Book of Ephesians, where the main idea is replaced by an imported image, fruit of the spirit. Reminds you of Galatians 5:22, doesn’t it? See. The…the word fruit…ahh…“spirit” is really the word “light.” It should be the word “light,” not “spirit.” How it ever…how they ever got the word “spirit” in here must have been a—you know, somebody was thinking Galatians 5:22 and they just put it in. It’s the word…it’s the word for “light,” see, in Aramaic and most of the critical Greek texts. It’s the fruit of light. The usage of the word “fruit” and that figure is to me real significant here, because the fruit of light has goodness, righteousness and truth. See it? Now in order to have fruit, you’ve got to someplace start, I think, with a bud, you know, like you have apples. Before you can have an apple you’ve got to have a bud or something. And then as I was thinking of this scripture here and how beautiful it was. If you’re going to have the fruit of light, then you’ve really got to stay right on. You’ve got to have a bud, and suppose it freezes a
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out of worshipping more than one 260 EPHESIANS 1981—1982—Taught by Victor Paul Wierwille God like they do in the mystery religions because the times in which we live are evil because of the many gods worshipped. Verse 17, King James. Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Understanding the word of the Lord. The Aramaic of “unwise” means empty of mind [chuckles], nothing in the head, everything goes clean, clear through. Signifies without any reason. The word “understanding” means thoughts flowing together. Remember, like rivers flowing together, sunesis. And the word “will” is thelēma, meaning intense desire. “…of the Lord” here in the Aramaic is the word “God.” And that’s why I have used that word “God” in some of my expanded translations as I have gone through here. The literal of 17 is as follows. Ephesians 5:17 Literal translation a