Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Filthiness (aisxrothv). Old word from aisxrov (base), here alone in N.T.
Foolish talking (mwrologia). Late word from mwrologov (mwros, logov), only here in N.T.
Jesting (eutrapelia). Old word from eutrapelov (eu, trepw, to turn) nimbleness of wit, quickness in making repartee (so in Plato and Plutarch), but in low sense as here ribaldry, scurrility, only here in N.T. All of these disapproved vices are apac legomena in the N.T.
Which are not befitting (a ouk anhken). Same idiom (imperfect with word of propriety about the present) in Colossians 3:18. Late MSS. read ta ouk anhkonta like ta mh kaqhkonta in Romans 1:28.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 5:4:
Philemon 1:8
James 4:4
Revelation 2:15
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