He enlivened _you, when you were dead. These words, he enlivened or
restored to life, are necessary to express the literal sense and
construction, as appears from the following fifth verse. by what is
here translated offences, are commonly understood trespasses less
grievous than by the word sins. ... [ Continue Reading ]
_According to the course of this world, (i.e. the customs of this
wicked corrupt world) according to the prince of the power of this
air, of the spirit, &c. meaning the devils, who are permitted to
exercise their power upon the earth, or in the air. See John xii. 10.;
xiv. 30.; xvi. 11. (Witham) ---... [ Continue Reading ]
_Among whom, &c. St. Jerome (p. 3) refers it to trespasses or sins.
--- Were by nature; not by nature according to the state of man's
first creation in paradise, but by nature infected with original sin
by the fall of our first parents. --- Even as the rest; that is, all
mankind. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_But God....hath raised up together, both Gentiles and Jews, to life
in Christ, remitting our sins by faith in him, and by the grace of our
merciful Redeemer, by his pure mercy, not by any works of ours, nor
merely by the works of the former law. --- Hath made us in a condition
to sit together in he... [ Continue Reading ]
_Quickened us together in Christ. Faith, baptism, and grace, are
pledges of our future resurrection and glorification in heaven. Our
present conversion is also a kind of resurrection. The time is come,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who
hear shall live. (St. Augustin... [ Continue Reading ]
Faith is the beginning, foundation, and the root of justification, and
the first of all other virtues, without which it is impossible to
please God. (Bristow)... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not of works, as of our own growth, or from ourselves: but as from
the grace of God. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fir we are his workmanship, not only as to our body and soul, but by
a new creation in Christ Jesus, with a new heart by his grace.
(Witham) --- St. Paul now compares our conversion to creation, to shew
that we had been called and justified without preceding merit. In the
same manner as the things... [ Continue Reading ]
Be mindful that as for you, who are Gentiles, who were called an
uncircumcised people by the circumcised Jews, that you were without
Christ, without the hopes or expectation of the Messias, alienated
from the conversation of those who were God's elect people, and from
the promises particularly made... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ destroyed the enmity which, like a wall of separation, stood
between Jew and Gentile, and united them into one people. He did this
in his flesh, by his own blood, or the sacrifice he made of his flesh
on the cross. (Calmet)... [ Continue Reading ]
You are no longer strangers with regard to God and his holy alliance.
You are no longer travellers and vagabonds, without a God, as you were
before your conversion; not knowing to whom you belonged, nor finding
in paganism either solid foundation or truth, neither hopes for this
nor consolation for... [ Continue Reading ]
The Church is in this place said to be built upon the apostles and
prophets; why not then upon St. Peter?... [ Continue Reading ]