Ephesians 5:5 - ECW

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From the Middleton page

Middleton
Ephesians 5:5 - also p. 69 and 507
http://books.google.com/books?id=0LfTEuP9cV0C&pg=PA362

Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria (maybe error per Coleridge, and Theodoret
Gregory Blunt counters these, at least the last two.

Coleridge
http://books.google.com/books?id=PyxhMbtMA8MC&pg=PA182
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Not given
Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Tertullian, Jerome, Athanasius, Augustine, Ambrose, Cassian, John Damasus

Hugh Stuart Boyd
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dt360V3HjmQC&pg=PA440
http://www.theologue.org/GREEKARTICLE-Boyd.html

Coleridge
http://books.google.com/books?id=PyxhMbtMA8MC&pg=PA183

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Ephesians 5:5 (AV)
For this ye know, that no whoremonger,
nor unclean person, nor covetous man,
who is an idolater,
hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Ephesians 5:5
https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/fathers/index.php/Ephesians 5:5

Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Tertullian, Jerome, Athanasius, Augustine, Ambrose, Cassian, John Damasus

Origen per John Eadie

Athanasius and John Damasus not on Scripture page
John Damasus on Coleridge

Wordsworth
Basil of Caesarea
Faustinus
 
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Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome.
To Heliodorus, Monk.
Ephesians 5:5

5. My dear brother, weigh well the various forms of transgression, and think not that the sins which I have mentioned are less flagrant than that of idolatry. Nay, hear the apostle’s view of the matter. “For this ye know,” he writes, “that no whore-monger or unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” . In a general way all that is of the devil savors of enmity to God, and what is of the devil is idolatry, since all idols are subject to him. Yet Paul elsewhere lays down the law in express and unmistakable terms, saying: “Mortify your members, which are upon the earth, laying aside fornication, uncleanness, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which are idolatry, for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh.”

Wordsworth tries to give support for the Sharp construction from Jerome here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=gQULAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24
 
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Clement of Alexandria
The Instructor
Book III
Chapter IV.—With Whom We are to Associate.

Whence the Scripture most strenuously exhorts, “Introduce not every one into thy house, for the snares of the crafty are many.” And in another place, “Let just men be thy guests, and in the fear of the Lord let thy boast remain.” Away with fornication. “For know this well,” says the apostle, “that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”

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The Stromata, or Miscellanies
Book III
Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, vel avaritia, ne nominetur quidem in vobis, sicut decet sanctos, et turpitudo, et stultiloquium.” Etenim docens Apostolus meditari vel ipsa voce esse castos, scribit: “Hoc enim scitote, quod omnis fornicator,” et cætera, usque ad illud: “Magis autem arguite.”
 

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Tertullian: Part Fourth.
On Modesty.
Consistency of the Apostle in His Other Epistles.
Chapter XVII

Again: “But let fornication and every impurity not be even named among you, as becometh saints,” —so far is it from being excused,—“knowing this, that every fornicator or impure (person) hath not God’s kingdom. Let none seduce you with empty words: on this account cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of unbelief.”
 
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Cyprian
The Epistles of Cyprian.
To Antonianus About Cornelius and Novatian.

27. Neither let the new heretics flatter themselves in this, that they say that they do not communicate with idolaters; although among them there are both adulterers and fraudulent persons, who are held guilty of the crime of idolatry, according to the saying of the apostle: “For know this with understanding, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, whose guilt is that of idolatry, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
 

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Augustine
Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings
Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy.
On Baptism, Against the Donatists.
In which he treats of what follows in the same epistle of Cyprian to Jubaianus. Chapter 5

"The covetous man, which is an idolater;" and Cyprian too understood the same passage in just the same way, when he says, in his letter to Antonianus, "Nor let the new heretics flatter themselves in this, that they say they do not communicate with idolaters, whereas there are amongst them both adulterers and covetous persons, who are held guilty of the sin of idolatry; ‘for know this, and understand, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God;’

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Auqustine:

The Anti-Manichaean Writinqs, The Anti-Donatist Writinqs
Writinqs in Connection with the Donatist Controversy,
On Baptism, Against the Donatists.
In which he treats of what follows in the same epistle of Cyprian to Jubaianus.
Chapter 9

Scripture declares openly, "Neither covetous nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God;" and "He that putteth out his money to usury," and "No whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

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Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings
Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy.
On Baptism, Against the Donatists.
In which he treats of what follows in the same epistle of Cyprian to Jubaianus.
Chapter 18

. Let us suppose another, a fornicator, unclean, lascivious, covetous, or even more openly given to idolatry, a student of witchcraft, a lover of strife and contention, envious, hot-tempered, seditious, jealous, drunken, and a reveller, but a Catholic; can it be that for this sole merit, that he is a Catholic, he will inherit the kingdom of God, though his deeds are of the kind of which the apostle thus concludes: "Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God?" If we say this, we lead ourselves astray. For the word of God does not lead us astray, which is neither silent, nor lenient, nor deceptive through any flattery. Indeed, it speaks to the same effect elsewhere: "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, no covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words.‘®!a We have no reason, therefore, to complain of the word of God. It certainly says, and says openly and freely, that those who live a wicked life have no part in the kingdom of God.
 
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Theodoret
The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.
Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus,
To John the CEconomus.

He calls the same both Jesus Christ, and Son of David, and Son of God, as God and Lord of all, and yet in the middle of his epistle, after making mention of the Jews, he adds, “whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever, amen. Here he says that He who according to the flesh derived His descent from the Jews is eternal God and is praised by the right minded as Lord of all created things. The same teaching is given us in the Apostle’s words to the excellent Titus “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Here he calls the same both Saviour, and great God, and Jesus Christ. And in another place he writes, “In the kingdom of Christ and of God.” Moreover the chorus of the angels announced to the shepherds “Unto you is born this day in the city of David…Christ the Lord.”

Wordsworth has 4
https://books.google.com/books?id=gQULAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31
p. 31-33

Methodist Review
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ko9JAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135

Coleridge
https://books.google.com/books?id=PyxhMbtMA8MC&pg=PA182

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Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons.
Exposition of the Christian Faith.
Book III.
Chapter XII. The kingdom of the Father and of the Son is one and undivided, so likewise is the Godhead of each.

101. See now yet another proof that the kingdom, the government, of the Father and the Son is one. It is written in the Epistle to Timothy: “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the government of God, our Saviour, and Christ Jesus, our Hope.”22762276 1 Tim. i. 1. One, therefore, the kingdom of the Father and the Son is plainly declared to be, even as Paul the Apostle also asserted, saying: “For know this, that no shameless person, none that is impure, or covetous (which meaneth idolatry), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” It is, therefore, one kingdom, one Godhead.

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Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose.
Epistle LXIII: To the Church at Vercellae.

And to the Ephesians: "But fornication, and all undeanness, and covetousness let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints." And immediately he adds: "For this ye know, that no immodest person, nor unclean, nor covetous, which is an idolator, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
 
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John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian.
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences l-X.
Conference V. Conference of Abbot Serapion. On the Eight Principal Faults.
Chapter XI. Of the origin and character of each of these faults.

And these three kinds the blessed Apostle tells us must be stamped out in one and the same way. “Mortify,” says he, “your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, etc.” . And again of two of them he says to the Ephesians: “Let fornication and uncleanness be not so much as named among you:” and once more: “But know this that no fornicator or unclean person, or covetous person who is an idolater hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” . And just as these three must be avoided by us with equal care, so they one and all shut us out and exclude us equally from the kingdom of Christ.
 

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Glassius

Granville Sharp
https://archive.org/details/remarksonusesofd00sharrich/page/31/mode/1up?view=theater

Wordsworth

Blunt

Middleton

Andrews Norton
https://books.google.com/books?id=hm8_AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA199

John Wilson
http://books.google.com/books?id=w9ArAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA178

Ephesians 4:32 (AV)
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 5:2 (KJV)
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,
and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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