The Girdle of Truth

Stand firm therefore.

Now, here, the first thing which calls for our notice is the posture of the militant Christian – “stand.” Here the word is referred, not to a warfare finished, but to a warfare just beginning; and the apostle wants to show us how the soldier is to bear himself when he goes forth to “fight under Christ’s banner against sin, the world, and the devil,” and he begins by telling him “to stand.”