Efesios 6 (Spanish RV 1909) - Bible Truth Library

the breastplate.The [thorax ,] or breastplate, consisted of two parts; one of which covered the whole region of the thorax or breast, and the other the back, as far down as the front part extended.

Is. 59:17• ¹⁷Pues de justicia se vistió como de loriga, con capacete de salud en su cabeza: y vistióse de vestido de venganza por vestidura, y cubrióse de celo como de manto, (Is. 59:17)

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1 Ts. 5:8• ⁸Mas nosotros, que somos del día, estemos sobrios, vestidos de cota de fe y de caridad, y la esperanza de salud por yelmo. (1 Ts. 5:8)

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Ap. 9:9,17• ⁹Y tenían corazas como corazas de hierro; y el estruendo de sus alas, como el ruido de carros que con muchos caballos corren á la batalla.
¹⁷Y así vi los caballos en visión, y los que sobre ellos estaban sentados, los cuales tenían corazas de fuego, de jacinto, y de azufre. Y las cabezas de los caballos eran como cabezas de leones; y de la boca de ellos salía fuego y humo y azufre. (Ap. 9:9,17)

• The defensive armor, our own state, comes first. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The loins are the place of strength when duly girt, but represent the intimate affections and movements of the heart. If we allow our hearts to wander where they will, instead of abiding in communion with God, Satan has easy hold upon us. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• We gird up the loins. This is done, not when Satan is present; it is a work with God, which is done by applying the truth to our souls in His presence, judging everything in us by this means, and putting a bridle on the heart that it may only move under His eye. This is true liberty and true joy. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The breastplate of righteousness—a conscience that has nothing to reproach itself with. The natural man knows how a bad conscience robs him of strength before men. There is only to be added here the way in which Satan uses it to entrap man in his snares. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The defensive armor, our own state, comes first. The whole ends with the expression of the entire and continual dependence on God in which the Christian warrior stands. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The loins are the place of strength when duly girt, but represent the intimate affections and movements of the heart. If we allow our hearts to wander where they will, instead of abiding in communion with God, Satan has easy hold upon us. This piece of armor is then the application of the truth to the most intimate movements, the first movements of the heart. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The breastplate of righteousness—a conscience that has nothing to reproach itself with. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• We gain a good conscience before God by the blood of the Lamb. By walking with God we maintain it before men and for communion with God, in order to have strength and spiritual understanding, and to have them increasingly. (“Ephesians 6” by J.N. Darby)

• To know the truth and be set free by the truth is one thing; to have girt about our loins with truth is another. It is the intimate dealing of truth with the soul, so that there is no laxity of heart or indulged will, but on the contrary, the affections and judgment braced up to Christ and the things of Christ. (“Remarks on Ephesians 6:13-17” by W. Kelly)

• “The breastplate of righteousness” …. is that we put on practical righteousness as our breastplate. Nothing exposes a saint in conflict more readily than a bad conscience in his ways. (“Remarks on Ephesians 6:13-17” by W. Kelly)

• {breastplate of righteousness} As to practical righteousness, a saint should be watchful in not allowing himself in those things which he feels to be wrong. If not so, he gives Satan a handle whereby to distress him. Although he knows that he has no righteousness but in Christ, yet as regards his walk, and in conflict with Satan, he feels that “if his heart condemn him, God is greater than his heart, and knoweth all things.” If we are in conflict with Satan, and the flesh gets the better of us, Satan comes in, and we are laid low; and then, although safe as to our souls, all our comfort is lost, and the Lord is dishonored by us. (“Israel's Preparation for Messiah's Kingdom: 5” by R. Beacon)

• “LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH.” The secret of a holy and unworldly walk is the being filled with the “truth,” the inward man feeding upon Christ, and the better and enduring substance laid up for us in Him. If Satan comes and says to us, “You had better enjoy the world,” the man who has his “LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH” can answer him, “No, I have got another world.” (article #1448807)

J. N. Darby Translation

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

W. Kelly Translation

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,