ACC ~ Ephesians 5 v5a

WHETHER SOME SINS ARE MORE SERIOUS. MARIUS VICTORINUS: Since he has listed three sins first, then added another three, his instruction requires him to explain that the first three are more serious, seeing that he has said that these first threeare not even to be named among the saints. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.5.5.

WHETHER WORDS SAID IN JEST CONDEMN US. JEROME: Are those merely guilty of silliness and inordinate levity to be kept out of the kingdom of God? Are they excluded on the same basis as those sins that he has marked off specifically? It would seem a cruel sentence not to pardon the weakness of human frailty, so that our words condemned us even when said in jest. … Yet in making this distinction [between lesser and more serious sins] we are not making excuses for silliness and levity. They do not exclude from the kingdom. But they are not negligible and remind us that just as “the Father has many mansions” and “one star differs from another in glory,”so too will it be in the resurrection of the dead. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 3.5.5.

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