Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
All Commentaries on Ephesians 6:14 Go To Ephesians 6
John Chrysostom
AD 407
The first art in tactics is to know how to stand firmly. From this firmness all else follows…. He is not speaking here of a literal girdle. He is setting in contrast, by this metaphor, the soldier who is slack and dissipated in his appetites, who lets his thoughts creep on the ground…. He speaks here of the loins. Just like the keel of a ship the loins are the central balancing support of our whole body. They are a kind of foundation. All is built up from them…. The girdle is used in combat to bind and hold together this foundation of ours. That is why we are also girdled when we run. It secures the strength within us. .
