HOMILY XVIII.] HOMILIES ON EPHESIANS. 133 the grace of God has this accrued to you. That is to say, ye also were sometime worthy of the same punishments, but now are so no more. " Walk " therefore " as children of light." What is meant however by " children of light," he adds afterwards. Ver. 9, 10. "For the fruit 1 of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, prov ing what is well-pleasing unto the Lord." " In all goodness," - he says : this is opposed to the angry, and the bitter : " and righteous ness " ; this to the covetous : " and truth " ; this to false pleasure : not those former things, he says, which I was mentioning, but their oppo- sites. " In all" ; that is, the fruit of the Spirit ought to be evinced in everything. " Proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord " ; so that those things are tokens of a childish and imper fect mind. Ver. n, 12, 13. "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. But all things when they are reproved, are made manifest by the light." He had said, " ye are light." Now the light reproves by exposing the things which take place in the darkness. So that if ye, says he, are vir tuous, and conspicuous, the wicked will be unable to lie hidden. For just as when a candle is set, all are brought to light, and the thief cannot enter ; so if your light shine, the wicked being discovered shall be caught. So then it is our duty to expose them. How then does our Lord say, "Judge not, that ye be not judged " ? (Matt, vii. i, 3.) Paul did not say "judge," he said " reprove," that is, correct. And the words, "Judge not, that ye be not judged," He spoke with reference to very small errors. Indeed, He added, " Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? " But what Paul is say ing is of this sort. As a wound, so long as it is imbedded and concealed outwardly, and runs beneath the surface, receives no attention, so also sin, as long as it is concealed, being as it were in darkness, is daringly committed in full security ; but as soon as " it is made manifest," becomes " light " ; not indeed the sin itself, (for how could that be ?) but the sinner. For when he has been brought out to light, when he has been admonished, when he has repented, when he has obtained pardon, hast thou not cleared away all his darkness? Hast thou not. then healed his wound? Hast thou not called his 1 [" Fruit of the light (not of the spirit, as Chrysostom s text has) denotes figuratively the aggregate of moral effects which Chris tian enlightenment produces." Meyer. G. A.] 1 [" Chrysostom s interpretation is too specific. The words mean good, right, true, and embrace the -whole of Christian morality." Meyer. G. A.] unfruitfulness into fruit ? Either this is his mean ing, 3 or else what I said above, that your life " being manifest, is light." For no one hides an irreproachable life; whereas things which are hidden, are hidden by darkness covering them. Ver. 14. "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee." By the " sleeper " and the " dead," he means the man that is in sin ; for he both exhales noi some odors like the dead, and is inactive like one that is asleep, and like him he sees nothing, but is dreaming, and forming fancies and illu sions. Some indeed read,4 "And thou shalt touch Christ " ; but others, " And Christ shall shine upon thee " ; and it is rather this latter. Depart from sin, and thou shalt be able to be hold Christ. "For every one that doeth ill, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light." (John iii. 20.) He therefore that doeth it not, cometh to the light. Now he is not saying this with reference to the unbelievers only, for many of the faithful, no less than unbelievers, hold fast by wicked ness ; nay, some far more. Therefore to these also it is necessary to exclaim, " Awake, 5 thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee." To these it is fitting to say this also, " God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." (Matt. xxii. 32.) If then he is not the God of the dead, let us live. Now there are some who say that the words, the covetous man is an idolater," are hyper bolical. However, the statement is not hyper bolical, it is true. How, and in what way? Because the covetous man apostatizes from God, just as the idolater does. And lest you should imagine this is a bare assertion, there is a declaration of Christ which saith, " Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matt. vi. 24.) If then it is not possible to serve God and Mam mon, they who serve Mammon have thrown themselves out of the service ofGod ; and they who have denied His sovereignty, and serve lifeless gold, it is plain enough that they are 3 [This difficult passage is thus translated by Kllicott: It is true these things are done in secret, but all of them, when reproved, are made manifest by the light (thus shed upon them); for everything that is made manifest is light (becomes daylight, is of the nature of light). G. A.] 4 [e7rn//aOoei?(instead of firubavtrfi) is the reading ofD* and E, and the Latin versions of these MSS. (continges Christum}, but it never obtained much acceptance, and hardly appears in extant codices. See Scrivener s Introd. 632, and Westcott and Hort, Appen dix, p. 125. G. A.] [" The words here quoted are not found exactly in this form in the O. T., but certainly occur in substance in Isa. Ix. i. Instead of resorting to the explanation of Meyer or De Wette (which are some what rationalistic), it is better to say that Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is expressing in a condensed form the spiritual meaning of the passage." Ellicott. Riddle says: " It is Isa. Ix. i, partly paraphrased and partly condensed, and interpreted in the light of its fulfillment." " This call ofGod to the sons of disobedience to awake, confirms the necessity of the <=Aryxfiv, and the promise, Christ shall shine upon thee, confirms the salutary influence of the light." Meyer. G. A.]