Reading for February 7th

Read Ephesians 4.17-5.2
In 4.17-5.2:Old and new walks.
(See 2.1-10.)
The new walk, which avoids the walk of the gentiles (4.17a) with its futility, vices, opposition to instruction (4.17b-24), has practical implications (4.25-51).
In verse 17: Affirm and testify, a pleonasm (deliberate repetition) drawn from legal language.
In verse 20: Learned ... heard ... taught, instructions preceding baptism.
In verses 22-24: Put away, clothe yourselves with new self, baptismal terms.
In verses 25-26: Speak truth, Zec 8-16; be angry and sin not, Ps 4.4.
In 5. 1-2: Imitators of God, never used by Paul, though he speaks of imitating Christ (1 Cor 11.1), himself (1 Thess 1.6; Phil 3.17) or others (Phil 3.17).
Comments or Questions..