But now you also put off all these
Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out
of the former state in which they were once, and professed not to
walk and live in sin, it became them to separate, remove, and put
at a distance from them all sins, and every vice, to lay them
aside as dead weights upon them, and put them off as filthy
garments; for such sins are never to be put on, and cleaved to
again as formerly; and that not only those, the above mentioned,
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, but the following also,
anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
or "evil speaking"; what vices are here intended, (See Gill on
Ephesians 4:31); to which is added,
filthy communication,
which comes
out of the mouth:
and is to be removed and put out of it, or abstained from; and
which is to be understood also of blasphemy, or evil speaking of
one another, whereby the credit and reputation of each other may
be hurt. "Filthy communication" is the same with that which is
said to be corrupt, ( Ephesians
4:29 ) ; and which, though it is applicable to all speech
that is unsavoury, unedifying, idle, and useless, and may be
properly enough said of flattery, lying, cursing, and swearing;
yet chiefly regards obscene language, unchaste words, and filthy
talking, which tend to encourage and cherish the sin of
uncleanness in any of its branches, flattery, lying, cursing, and
swearing; yet chiefly regards obscene language, unchaste words,
and filthy talking, which tend to encourage and cherish the sin
of uncleanness in any of its branches.