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10 afinding out what is acceptable to the Lord.  
11 And have ano fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather1 expose them.  
12 aFor it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.  
13 But aall things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.  
14 Therefore He says:
a“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”  

Walk in Wisdom

15 aSee then that you walk1 circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,  
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Adam Clarke
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Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak - This no doubt refers to the Eleusinian and Bacchanalian mysteries, which were performed in the night and darkness, and were known to be so impure and abominable, especially the latter, that the Roman senate banished them both from Rome and Italy. How the discovery of these depths of Satan was made, and the whole proceedings in that case, may be seen in Livy, Hist. lib. xxxix. cap. 8-19, where the reader will see the force of what the apostle says here: It is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret; the abominations being of the most stupendous kind, and of the deepest dye.




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