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For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Verse 8. By darkness is here meant the state of infidelity into which they had been plunged so far as to adore stones as God, and committed without remorse the above-mentioned grievous sins. But delivered by Christ from this darkness, they have become light in the Lord, shining in faith and justice. Estius.
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Verse 9. For the fruit of the light. So the Latin and divers Greek copies; not the fruit of the spirit, as we read in many Greek manuscripts; and in this Dr. Wells thought fit to change the Prot. translation. Witham.
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Verse 10. With solicitude seek out what things are pleasing to God, and carefully perform them. Estius.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Verse 11. You are light, they are darkness; do you, therefore, shew by the light of your good works how base and detestable their works of darkness are. Estius.
For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Verse 14. Rise, thou that sleepest. The sense may be taken from Isaiah 60:1. S. Jerom thinks they may be cited from some work not canonical. Witham.
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.