Ephesians 5:8 (WEB)
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Baptism
“Having received in Baptism the Word, "the true light that enlightens every man," the person baptized has been "enlightened," he becomes a "son of light," indeed, he becomes "light" himself:” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:9; 1 Thess 5:5; Heb 10:32; Eph 5:8.
Life in Christ
“He enlightens and strengthens us to live as "children of light" through "all that is good and right and true."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:8, 9.
Fathers and councils · 37
Tertullian
“And if so, the apostle too was in error when he said in his epistle, “Ye were at one time darkness, (but now are ye light in the Lord:)” and, “We also were by nature children of wrath;” and, “Such were some of you, but ye are washed.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Again to the Ephesians: “Be not, then, partners with them: for ye were at one time darkness.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 7, 8 ad init.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Eph. 5:8)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on John
“(Eph. 5:8)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“For we are not that Light, which lighteth every man, but we are enlightened by Thee, that we, who were sometimes darkness, may be light in Thee.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“They themselves verily are evil when they hold these evil opinions; and they shall become good when they hold the truth, and shall consent unto the truth, that Thy apostle may say unto them, “Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For even we ourselves, who in respect of the soul are a spiritual creature, having turned away from Thee, our light, were in that life “sometimes darkness;” and do labour amidst the remains of our darkness, until in Thy Only One we become Thy righteousness, like the mountains of God.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Whereas in us there is a difference of times, in that we were darkness, and are made light; but of that it is only said what it would have been had it not been enlightened.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“And, behold, we were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Hope and endure until the night,—the mother of the wicked,—until the anger of the Lord be overpast, whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness, the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin, “until the day break and the shadows flee away.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 3, and v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For who but they that do pass from old life into new?…“For ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“And now to them builded in Jerusalem, and shining by the light of Grace, is said, “Ye have been sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Just as to certain believers the Apostle saith, “Ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”…“And hath not given unto motion my feet.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…called to the faith who were black; the very same indeed, so that there is said to them, “for ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”…Thence was also that calf which the people worshipped, unbelieving, apostate, seeking the gods of the Egyptians, forsaking Him who had delivered them from the…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8. [See p. 331, note 3, supra.—C.]
Read the whole comment“For thou wert in darkness, “but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…(ver. 12), the dark answers to the land of forgetfulness: for the unbelieving are meant by the dark, as the Apostle saith, “For ye were sometimes darkness;” and the land where all things are forgotten, is the man who has forgotten God; for the unbelieving soul can arrive at darkness so intense, “that the fool saith…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Clothed with His Church, because she is made “light” in Him, who before was darkness in herself, as the apostle saith: “Ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For they remember that they were some time in darkness, but are now light in the Lord.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For they have become light, but in the Lord; for they were darkness before.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Because he too is called a man in a figure.…Now then being made light, not in ourselves, but in the Lord, let us pray not only against darkness, that is, against sinners, whom still the devil possesseth, but also against their prince, the devil himself, who worketh in the children of disobedience.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…Testament and the partaking of the resurrection of Christ the words might be spoken to us “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord”) intimates to us in some way that the day takes its beginning from the night.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8
Read the whole comment“When this takes place in it, it will hear the words, “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For even we who are yet living by faith, hoping only and not yet enjoying equality with them, are already called “light” by the apostle: “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“But now, because they had believed, what?—“but now are ye light,” he says, “in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For this is perhaps the grace regarding which we are about to speak, that now we be no more darkness, and that the apostle may say to us, “We were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light;” and again, “But we who are of the day, let us be sober.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For saith the apostle, “Ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…with unbelievers, we Christians are even now light; as the apostle says, “For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord: walk as children of light:” and he says elsewhere, “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast away the works of darkness, and put on us the armor of light; let us…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Of this darkness,” he says, that is, of the lovers of this world: of whom, nevertheless, there were some elected, not from any deserving of their own, but by the grace of God, to whom he says, “Ye were sometimes darkness; but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…thereof, or of unbelievers, out of whose hands that world is rescued, to which it is said, “Ye were at one time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:” the prince of this world, of whom He elsewhere saith, “Now is the prince of this world cast out,” is assuredly judged, inas much as he is irrevocably destined…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…after saying, “For ye were at one time darkness, but now are ye light,” that none might attribute the doing of this to themselves, added, “in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
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Jerome
“Therefore we should congratulate our dear Blæsilla that she has passed from darkness to light, and has in the first flush of her dawning faith received the crown of her completed work.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
““Ye were,” it is said, “sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Once ye were darkness, now are ye light in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Etenim docens Apostolus meditari vel ipsa voce esse castos, scribit: “Hoc enim scitote, quod omnis fornicator,” et cætera, usque ad illud: “Magis autem arguite.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 5–11.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 79.
Cited together in Catechism §1216 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.10.
Cited together in Catechism §1216.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 79.
Cited together in The City of God XI.33.
Cited together in The City of God XI.33.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 21.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.10.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.10.
Cited together in The City of God XI.33.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 21.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 21.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 21.
Cited together in Origen on John 1:5 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1216 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 3:1–3 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.10.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.