Ephesians 5:13,14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But all things that are reproved Or, discovered, or confuted, as ελεγχομενα may be properly rendered; are made manifest Have their iniquity laid open to the actors themselves, as well as to others; by the light Of divine truth; or, as Whitby interprets the clause, “being discovered by the light, they are made manifest.” For whatsoever doth make any thing of a moral or immoral nature manifest, is light That is, nothing can make any thing in men's spirit or conduct manifest but light, yea, light from heaven; “and therefore the gospel well deserves that name, as teaching those who are instructed in it to judge rightly concerning the moral nature of actions, and inculcating such general principles, as will be of use to them in every particular case that can possibly arise.” Wherefore he saith Namely, God, in the general tenor of his word, to all who are still in darkness; Awake thou that sleepest In ignorance of God, of thyself, and of his will concerning thee, and in a state of stupid insensibility respecting invisible and eternal things; and arise from the dead From thy state of spiritual death, a state of alienation from the life of God here, and obnoxiousness to eternal death hereafter. See on Ephesians 2:5. And Christ shall give thee light Spiritual and divine light, knowledge, wisdom, holiness, and happiness, the light of grace and glory.