SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:19
hablando entre vosotros con salmos, y con himnos, y canciones espirituales, cantando y alabando al Seor en vuestros corazones;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:19
Verse 19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms] We can scarcely say what is the exact difference between these three expressions. Psalms, yalmoi, may probably mean those of David. Hymns] umnoiv? Extemporaneous effusions in praise of God, uttered under the influence of the Divine Spirit, or a sense of his especial goodness. See Acts xvi. 25.
Songs] widaiv? Odes; premeditated and regular poetic compositions; but, in whatever form they were composed, we learn that they were all pneumatika, spiritual - tending to magnify God and edify men.
Singing and making melody in your heart] The heart always going with the lips. It is a shocking profanation of Divine worship to draw nigh to God with the lips, while the heart is far from him. It is too often the case that, in public worship, men are carried off from the sense of the words by the sounds that are put to them. And how few choirs of singers are there in the universe whose hearts ever accompany them in what they call singing the praises of God!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs , &c.] By psalms are meant the Psalms of David, and others which compose the book that goes by that name, for other psalms there are none; and by hymns we are to understand, not such as are made by good men, without the inspiration of the Spirit of God; since they are placed between psalms and spiritual songs, made by men inspired by the Holy Ghost; and are put upon a level with them, and to be sung along with them, to the edification of churches; but these are only another name for the Book of Psalms, the running title of which may as well be the Book of Hymns, as it is rendered by Ainsworth; and the psalm which our Lord sung with his disciples after the supper, is called an hymn; and so are the psalms in general called hymns, by Philo the Jew f61 ; and songs and hymns by Josephus f62 ; and twjbwtw twry , songs and praises, or hymns, in the Talmud f63 : and by spiritual songs are meant the same Psalms of David, Asaph, &c. and the titles of many of them are songs, and sometimes a psalm and song, and song and psalm, a song of degrees; together with all other Scriptural songs, written by inspired men; and which are called spiritual, because they are indited by the Spirit of God, consist of spiritual matter, and are designed for spiritual edification; and are opposed to all profane, loose, and wanton songs: these three words answer to yry ylht yrwmzm the several titles of David's Psalms; from whence it seems to be the intention of the apostle, that these should be sting in Gospel churches; for so he explains speaking to themselves in them, in the next clause: singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord ; singing, as it is a distinct thing from prayer, so from giving of thanks, which is mentioned in ( Ephesians 5:20) as another duty; it is not a mental praising of God, for it is called speaking, and teaching, and admonishing, but it is a praising of God with the modulation of the voice; and is rightly performed, when the heart and voice agree; when there is a melody in the heart, as well as in the tongue; for singing and making melody in the heart, is singing with, or from the heart, or heartily; of as elsewhere, with grace, and which the Alexandrian copy reads here; that is, either with gratitude and thankfulness, or with grace in exercise; and the end in view should be the glory of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-21 - Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being impossibl else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed according to his design. If we have lost our time heretofore, we must double ou diligence for the future. Of that time which thousands on a dying be would gladly redeem at the price of the whole world, how little do me think, and to what trifles they daily sacrifice it! People are very ap to complain of bad times; it were well if that stirred them more to redeem time. Be not unwise. Ignorance of our duty, and neglect of ou souls, show the greatest folly. Drunkenness is a sin that never goe alone, but carries men into other evils; it is a sin very provoking to God. The drunkard holds out to his family and to the world they saw spectacle of a sinner hardened beyond what is common, and hastening to perdition. When afflicted or weary, let us not seek to raise ou spirits by strong drink, which is hateful and hurtful, and only ends i making sorrows more felt. But by fervent prayer let us seek to be filled with the Spirit, and to avoid whatever may grieve our graciou Comforter. All God's people have reason to sing for joy. Though we ar not always singing, we should be always giving thanks; we should neve want disposition for this duty, as we never want matter for it, throug the whole course of our lives. Always, even in trials and afflictions and for all things; being satisfied of their loving intent, and goo tendency. God keeps believers from sinning against him, and engage them to submit one to another in all he has commanded, to promote his glory, and to fulfil their duties to each other.
Greek Textus Receptus
λαλουντες 2980 5723 εαυτοις 1438 ψαλμοις 5568 και 2532 υμνοις 5215 και 2532 ωδαις 5603 πνευματικαις 4152 αδοντες 103 5723 και 2532 ψαλλοντες 5567 5723 εν 1722 τη 3588 καρδια 2588 υμων 5216 τω 3588 κυριω 2962
Vincent's NT Word Studies
19. Speaking to yourselves (lalountev eautoiv). Rev., one to another. The A.V. is literally correct, but is open to the misinterpretation each one communing with himself. The meaning is as in Col. iii. 13, and Rev. is better.
Psalms. See on 1 Cor. xiv. 15 Hymns - spiritual songs. See on Col. iii. 16.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
5:19 {To the Lord} (twi kuriwi). The Lord Jesus. In #Col 3:16 we have twi qewi (to God) with all these varieties of praise, another proof of the deity of Christ. See #Col 3:16 for discussion.
