A commentary on the epistle to the Ephesians by Charles Hodge ...

246 EPHESIANS,
for the edification of the church, by the communication
of that truth in connection with which alone the Holy
Ghost is given.
All this Rome perverts. She says that prelates,
whom she calls apostles, are the channels of the Holy
Spirit, first to the priests and then to the people; and
that this communication, is not by the truth, but tactual,
by the laying on of hands. No one therefore can be
united to Christ except through them, or live except as
in communion with them. Thus error is always the
caricature of truth.
SECTION II. —Vs. 17-32. -C. V. 1-2.
17. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
18. mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because
19. of the blindness of their heart: who, being past feeling, have
given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all unclean,
20. ness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so
21. be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as
22. the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the de23. ceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and
24. that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
25. righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying,
speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are mem26. bers one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the
27. sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.
28. Let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing which is, good, that he may
29. have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communica