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The Helmet of Hope
Commentators explain that the 'helmet of salvation' is the confident hope of our final salvation in Christ. As a helmet protects a soldier's head, this hope guards our minds from the blows of doubt, despair, and false doctrine. Scholars note that the verb 'take' implies this is a gift we receive from God, securing our thoughts in the finished work of Christ.
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Ephesians
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Albert Barnes
On Ephesians 6:17
18th Century
Theologian
And take the helmet. The helmet was a cap made of thick leather, or brass, fitted to the head, and was usually crowned with a plume, or cr…
AT Robertson
On Ephesians 6:17
The helmet of salvation (την περικεφαλαιαν του σωτηριου). Late word (περι, κεφαλη, head, around the head), in Polybius, LXX, [Refe…
Charles Ellicott
On Ephesians 6:17
19th Century
Bishop
And take.—There is a break here. We are said not to put on, but to “take” (or rather, receive)—a word specially appropria…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Ephesians 6:17
19th Century
Preacher
And take the helmet of salvation, –
You used to wear the helmet of pride with its fine nodding plumes, but that has been taken off …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Ephesians 6:17
Two more items remain. The “helmet” covered the head. It was made of bronze with leather attachments. In Isa 59:17 the Lord wears “the helmet of sa…
John Calvin
On Ephesians 6:17
16th Century
Theologian
And take the helmet of salvation. In a passage already quoted (1 Thessalonians 5:8), the hope of salvati…
John Gill
On Ephesians 6:17
17th Century
Pastor
And take the helmet of salvation
Meaning either Christ himself, the Saviour; and so the Arabic version renders it, "…
Matthew Henry
On Ephesians 6:10–18
17th Century
Minister
Spiritual strength and courage are needed for our spiritual warfare and suffering. Those who wish to prove they have true grace must aim at all gra…