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John Gill's Exposition on Ephesians 6:14
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Stand therefore, &c.] Keep your ground, do not desert the army, the church of Christ, nor his cause; continue in the station in which you are placed, keep your post, be upon your watch, stand upon your guard: having your loins girt about with truth; by which is meant the Gospel, and the several doctrines of it; (see <490113>Ephesians 1:13 4:15); and to have the loins girt with it, shows, that it should be near and close to the saints, and never departed from; and that it is a means of keeping them close to God and Christ, and of strengthening them against the assaults and attacks of Satan; and is of great use in the Christians' spiritual conflict with their enemies; the girdle is a part of armour, and so considerable as sometimes to be put for the whole, (<230527>Isaiah 5:27); and here it is mentioned in the first place: and having on the breastplate of righteousness; in allusion to (<235917>Isaiah 59:17), meaning not works of righteousness done by men, though these are a fence when rightly used against the reproaches and charges of the enemy, as they were by Samuel, (<091203>1 Samuel 12:3), but rather the graces of faith and love, (<520508>1 Thessalonians 5:8), though faith has another place in the Christian armour, afterwards mentioned; wherefore it seems best to understand this of the righteousness of Christ, which being imputed by God, and received by faith, is a guard against, and repels the accusations and charges of Satan, and is a security from all wrath and condemnation.
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