NOTES for Eph 4:26
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: |
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As a rule, the beginning of this verse draws our attention. How can one be angry – and not sin, if the Lord Himself likened anger to the violation of the sixth command of Moses "Thou shall not kill"? And in the same chapter of the epistle to Ephesians, Paul named anger among the defects, which must be put away from us. But is the Holy Scripture not speaking so often about the anger of God, and Jesus also is not foreign to anger! (See Mk 3:5).
The possible resolution of the problem can be James 1:20, where the human anger is set against God's truth. Thus there are two various angers: sinful human anger and the righteous Divine anger. Sin is the object of the righteous anger, the object of the sinful anger - the sinner. So, we can understand the first half of the verse like this: either you sin with anger, either be angry not of a sinful anger (which is not on the sinner, but on sin).
But the second half of the verse summarizes in both cases - "let not the sun go down upon your wrath". You should not come to standstill "in anger, it is necessary to bring it {anger} before God’s Face so that He annihilates it as our sin or accepts it in His righteous anger, and fills us with His mercy.
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For Eph 4:17-32
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, |
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: |
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. |
20 But ye have not so learned Christ; |
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: |
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; |
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; |
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. |
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. |
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: |
27 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 have to give to him that needeth. |
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. |
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. |
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: |
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. |
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