Teks -- Ephesians 5:5 (NET)

5:5 For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Robertson: Eph 5:5 - Ye know of a surety

Ye know of a surety ( iste ginōskontes ).

The correct text has iste , not este . It is the same form for present indicative (second person plural) and imperative, probably indicative here, "ye know."But why ginōskontes added? Probably, "ye know recognizing by your own experience."

Robertson: Eph 5:5 - No

No ( pāṡ̇ou ).

Common idiom in the N.T. like the Hebrew= oudeis (Robertson, Grammar , p. 732).

Robertson: Eph 5:5 - Covetous man

Covetous man ( pleonektēs ,pleon echō ).

Old word, in N.T. only here and 1Co 5:10.; 1Co 6:10.

Robertson: Eph 5:5 - Which is

Which is ( ho estin ).

So Aleph B. A D K L have hos (who), but ho is right. See note on Col 3:14 for this use of ho (which thing is). On eidōlolatrēs (idolater) see note on 1Co 5:10.

Robertson: Eph 5:5 - In the Kingdom of Christ and God

In the Kingdom of Christ and God ( en tēi basileiāi tou Christou kai theou ).

Certainly the same kingdom and Paul may here mean to affirm the deity of Christ by the use of the one article with Christou kai theou . But Sharp’ s rule cannot be insisted on here because theos is often definite without the article like a proper name. Paul did teach the deity of Christ and may do it here.

Vincent: Eph 5:5 - Ye know

Ye know ( ἴστε γινώσκοντες )

The A.V. fails to give the whole force of the expression, which is, ye know recognizing . Rev., ye know of a surety .

Vincent: Eph 5:5 - Idolater

Idolater

Compare Col 3:5, and see on 1Co 5:10.

JFB: Eph 5:5 - this ye know

The oldest manuscripts read, "Of this ye are sure knowing"; or as ALFORD, "This ye know being aware."

JFB: Eph 5:5 - covetous . . . idolater

(Col 3:5). The best reading may be translated, That is to say, literally, which is (in other words) an idolater. Paul himself had forsaken all for Christ (2Co 6:10; 2Co 11:27). Covetousness is worship of the creature instead of the Creator, the highest treason against the King of kings (1Sa 15:3; Mat 6:24; Phi 3:19; 1Jo 2:15).

JFB: Eph 5:5 - hath

The present implies the fixedness of the exclusion, grounded on the eternal verities of that kingdom [ALFORD].

JFB: Eph 5:5 - of Christ and of God

Rather, as one Greek article is applied to both, "of Christ and God," implying their perfect oneness, which is consistent only with the doctrine that Christ is God (compare 2Th 1:12; 1Ti 5:21; 1Ti 6:13).

Clarke: Eph 5:5 - For this ye know

For this ye know - Ye must be convinced of the dangerous and ruinous tendency of such a spirit and conduct, when ye know that persons of this character can never inherit the kingdom of God. See on Eph 5:3 (note); and see the observations on the Greek article at the end of this epistle.

Calvin: Eph 5:5 - For this ye know // Nor covetous man, who is an idolater

5.For this ye know If his readers were at all captivated by the allurements of those vices which have been enumerated, the consequence would be that they would lend a hesitating or careless ear to his admonitions. He determines, therefore, to alarm them by this weighty and dreadful threatening, that such vices shut against us the kingdom of God. By appealing to their own knowledge, he intimates that this was no doubtful matter. Some might think it harsh, or inconsistent with the Divine goodness, that all who have incurred the guilt of fornication or covetousness are excluded from the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. But the answer is easy. Paul does not say that those who have fallen into those sins, and recovered from them, are not pardoned, but pronounces sentence on the sins themselves. After addressing the Corinthians in the same language, he adds:

“And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
(1Co 6:11.)

When men have repented, and thus give evidence that they are reconciled to God, they are no longer the same persons that they formerly were. But let all fornicators, or unclean or covetous persons, so long as they continue such, be assured that they have no friendship with God, and are deprived of all hope of salvation. It is called the kingdom of Christ and of God, because God hath given it to his Son that we may obtain it through him.

Nor covetous man, who is an idolater “Covetousness,” as he says in another place, “is idolatry,” (Col 3:5,) — not the idolatry which is so frequently condemned in Scripture, but one of a different description. All covetous men must deny God, and put wealth in his place; such is their blind greediness of wretched gain. But why does Paul attribute to covetousness alone what belongs equally to other carnal passions? In what respect is covetousness better entitled to this disgraceful name than ambition, or than a vain confidence in ourselves? I answer, that this disease is widely spread, and not a few minds have caught the infection. Nay, it is not reckoned a disease, but receives, on the contrary, very general commendation. This accounts for the harshness of Paul’s language, which arose from a desire to tear from our hearts the false view.

Defender: Eph 5:5 - idolater

Another surprising revelation is that a "covetous man" is equivalent to an "idolater." In fact, "Thou shalt not covet" is the last of God's ten commandments (Exo 20:17), whereas the first two are commands against idolatry (Exo 20:3-5). Covetousness, in God's sight, is equivalent to the worship of the creation rather than the Creator (Rom 1:25), the same as the worship of other aspects of nature as personified in various gods and goddesses. The god of money and material things is mammon, and Jesus stressed that "ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Mat 6:24)."

TSK: Eph 5:5 - this // that no // who is

this : 1Co 6:9, 1Co 6:10; Gal 5:19, Gal 5:21

that no : Eph 5:3; Heb 13:4

who is : Gal 5:21; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:10,1Ti 6:17; Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15

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Poole: Eph 5:5 - Nor covetous man, who is an idolater // Hath any inheritance // In the kingdom of Christ and of God

Nor covetous man, who is an idolater because he serves Mammon instead of God, loves his riches more than God, and placeth his hope in them.

Hath any inheritance without repentance; for he speaks of those that persevere in such sins, whom he calls children of disobedience, Eph 5:6 .

In the kingdom of Christ and of God not two distinct kingdoms, but one and the same, which belongs to God by nature, to Christ as Mediator. By this phrase he intimates, that there is no coming into the kingdom of God but by Christ.

Haydock: Eph 5:5 - Nor covetous person, which is a serving of idols

Nor covetous person, which is a serving of idols. It is clear enough by the Greek that the covetous man is called an idolater, whose idol in mammon; though it may be also said of other sinners, that the vices they are addicted to are their idols. (Witham)

Gill: Eph 5:5 - For this ye know // that no whoremonger, nor unclean person // Nor covetous man, who is an idolater // hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God

For this ye know,.... Or, "know ye this", as the Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read:

that no whoremonger, nor unclean person; anyone that is guilty of fornication, adultery, incest, &c.

Nor covetous man, who is an idolater: as every man is, that indulges his lusts, the idols of his own heart; and who serves divers lusts and pleasures, and gives up himself to work all uncleanness with greediness; never having his fill of sin, but is ever craving and coveting it; as well as he who is immoderately desirous of worldly things: the covetous man may be called an idolater, because the idolater and he worship the same in substance, gold and silver, and brass, or what is made of them; the covetous man admires his gold, lays it up, and will not make use of it, as if it was something sacred; and through his over love to mammon, whom he serves, he neglects the worship of God, and the good of his own soul, and puts his trust and confidence in his riches: now no such person

hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God; meaning either a Gospel church state, in which persons of such characters, and living in such sins, ought not to be; or else the kingdom of heaven and of glory, which may be called the kingdom of Christ, because it is in his hands, for his people; and it is his righteousness that gives a title to it, and his Spirit and grace which make meet for it; and it is by his power saints are preserved unto it; and he will put them into the possession of it; and which will greatly consist in the enjoyment of him: and this is also the kingdom of God, either of Christ who is God, or of God the Father; it being of his preparing and giving, and which he calls unto, and makes meet for; and this may be said to be an inheritance, because it is peculiar to children, the bequest of their heavenly Father, and is not purchased or acquired by them, but comes to them from the free donation of God, through the death of Christ; and to have an inheritance in it, is to have a right unto it, a meetness for it, and to be possessed of it: now the meaning of these words is, not that all who have been guilty of these sins shall be excluded the kingdom of God, but all such who live and die in them, without the grace of God, and righteousness of Christ.