The Daily Meditation

The Epistle of the Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

Chapter 4 Verses 26 - 27

26 Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down

upon your wrath,

27 Neither give place to the devil. (see note a)

Related Scripture

Psalm 4:4;

Psalm 37:8;

Proverbs 15:1;

Proverbs 16:32;

Ecclesiastes 7:9;

Proverbs 11:23;

Proverbs 12:16;

Proverbs 14:29;

Romans 12:19;

Ephesians 6:13, 16;

(a) Editor’s thought - I have so often wish I could read Paul’s letters in the original Greek, as sometimes I feel I am missing something in the translation. Herein is such a case.

In Vs 27 we see the words “give place”. In the NKJ translation it is noted that the words mean to literally give opportunity. I looked up the phrase in Strong’s Concordance and found the following word;

eiko i'-ko apparently a primary verb; properly, to be weak, i.e. yield:--give place

In other words we should be strong, and guard ourselves not yielding to the Devil our anger in such a way that it would cause us first to dwell on it, then to plan vengeance, and then act on that plan.