Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
הערת לימוד
Study Note
'You must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds' — Paul's ethical exhortation employs the Jewish contrast between 'walking' (peripatein, lifestyle) in wisdom versus futility, drawing on the wisdom literature's 'two ways' framework. The 'futility of mind' (mataiotēti tou noos) echoes Ecclesiastes' hebel (vanity, futility) and describes a cognitive condition in which the mind has lost its telos — untethered from the knowledge of God, it circles without purpose. The following verses (18–19) describe the progressive darkening: ignorance → hardened heart → callousness → licentiousness — a moral-epistemological spiral paralleling Romans 1:21–27. The verse presupposes that Gentile conversion involves a fundamental renovation of the mind (Ephesians 4:23; Romans 12:2), not merely a change of religious affiliation.
תרגומים נוספים
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.