Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
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Study Note
Paul's appeal from prison — 'I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called' — transitions the letter from doctrinal exposition (chapters 1-3) to ethical exhortation (chapters 4-6). The self-identification as 'prisoner of the Lord' rather than 'prisoner of Rome' reframes Paul's imprisonment as a mark of apostolic identity rather than shame — the chains are the Lord's, not Caesar's. The 'therefore' (oun) makes the following ethics of unity, maturity, and spiritual warfare an inference from the doctrinal wealth of chapters 1-3: what God has done creates the obligation and the power for how the church should live. Romans 12:1's 'therefore… present your bodies as a living sacrifice' employs the identical indicative-to-imperative structure.
其他译本
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
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