George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ephesians 2:8
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)
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)
Verse 8. _FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED, THROUGH FAITH_] As ye are now brought into a state of salvation, your sins being all blotted out, and you made partakers of the Holy Spirit; and, having a hope fu...
FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED - By mere favor. It is not by your Own merit; it is not because you have any claim. This is a favorite doctrine with Paul, as it is with all who love the Lord Jesus in sincer...
2. THE PRODUCTION OF THE MASTERWORK AND ITS DESTINY CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. What we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1)_ 2. What God does--rich in mercy (Ephesians 2:4) 3. The destiny of the masterwork (Ephe...
CHRISTIANS ARE RAISED AND EXALTED IN THE RISEN AND EXALTED CHRIST BY GOD'S FREE GRACE AND GIFT. The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and t...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of...
Although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Jesus Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses (i...
THROUGH. Greek. _dia_. App-104.Ephesians 2:1. FAITH. App-150. We are saved by grace, not by faith, which is the channel through (_dia_) which flows to us the Divine stream of saving grace. Both alike...
_For by grace_, &c. The connexion of thought (" _for_") is with the leading truth of Ephesians 2:4-7; the _gratuitous_"loving-kindness of the Lord" in the salvation of the Church. This, we have just r...
ΤΗ͂Ι ΓᾺΡ ΧΆΡΙΤΊ ἘΣΤΕ ΣΕΣΩΣΜΈΝΟΙ ΔΙᾺ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ. Emphasizing the means, as, before, the reality of the salvation. The root of our salvation lies in the declaration of God’s favour to us (cf. on Ephesians...
Ephesians 1:15 to Ephesians 2:10. THANKSGIVING PASSING INTO PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL INSIGHT This section corresponds to the section of thanksgiving which in all St Paul’s Epistles except Gal., 1 Tim. and...
ΧΆΡΙΤΙ _dat. sing. от_ ΧΆΡΙΣ (G5485) благодать. _Instr. dat._, "благодатью". Слово употреблено с определенным артиклем, потому что эта благодать уже упоминалась (Abbott), ΣΕΣΩΣΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part...
DISCOURSE: 2099 SALVATION BY GRACE NOT HOSTILE TO GOOD WORKS Ephesians 2:8. _By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should...
BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH;— He that reads St. Paul with attention, cannot but observe, that, speaking of the Gentiles, he calls their being brought back again from their apostacy into the ki...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 2:1-10) C. Once dead, now alive with Christ. Ephesians 2:1-10. 1. Before conversion, dead through trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1-3. a.
Divine Means; First of Salvation...
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: FOR - illustrating 'the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness.' He emphatically recurs to the truth...
1 Compare the condition of the two classes with that of the individual believer in Rom_6:2. Such as have "died to sin" "together with Christ", "are vivified together with Him", and "are reckoning them...
GENTILES AND JEWS ARE NOW ONE IN CHIRST 1-10. Further illustration of God'S power. He raised both Gentiles and Jews from the death of sin and exalted them to Christ's side....
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-10 ~ *SALVATION BY *GRACE 2:1-3 ~ OUR PAST LIFE V1 In past days, you were *spiritually dead be...
(1_ b._) Ephesians 2:8 (taking up and working out the parenthetical “by grace ye are saved” of Ephesians 2:5) form an instructive link of connection between these Epistles and those of the earlier gro...
BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH. — Properly, _ye have been saved;_ ye were saved at first, and continue in a state of salvation. In Ephesians 2:5 this thought is introduced parenthetically, natura...
CHAPTER 8 SAVED FOR AN END Ephesians 2:7 The plan which God has formed for men in Christ is of great dimensions every way, -in its length no less than in its breadth and height. He "raised us up and...
τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι : _for by grace have ye been saved_. More exactly “by the grace,” _i.e._, by this grace, the grace already mentioned. _Grace_ is the explanation of their own salvation, a...
A new paragraph begins at this point. This is denied indeed by some, who would connect the καὶ ὑμᾶς of Ephesians 2:1 immediately with the ἡμᾶς τοὺς πιστεύοντας of Ephesians 1:19 (Knatchbull), the ἐνήρ...
WHAT GRACE HAS DONE Ephesians 2:1 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture. The dea...
The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God,...
Saved By Grace Notice salvation is not by grace, nor faith alone. There is no way man could earn his salvation, so it is said here to be by the unmerited favor of God. God's grace is extended to all m...
For by (h) grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: (h) So then, grace, that is to say, the gift of God, and faith, stand with one another, to which two...
(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_GOD’S WORKMANSHIP_ ‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ...
Grace That Unifies I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of Chapter one of Ephesians, Paul told us in verse 6 that Jesus has "made us accepted in the beloved." 1. And we talked about the Greek...
8._For by grace are ye saved. _This is an inference from the former statements. Having treated of election and of effectual calling, he arrives at this general conclusion, that they had obtained salva...
In Chapter 2 [4] the operation of the power of God on earth, for the purpose of bringing souls into the enjoyment of their heavenly privileges, and thus of forming the assembly here below, is presente...
FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED,.... This is to be understood, not of temporal salvation, nor of preservation in Christ, nor of providential salvation in order to calling, and much less of being put in a wa...
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: _it is_ the gift of God: Ver. 8. _For by grace ye are saved_] So Ephesians 2:5, and everywhere almost St Paul is a most constant p...
_That in the ages to come_ As if he had said, His great design in doing all this for us is, that in all succeeding ages, under the dispensation of the gospel, _he might show_ Might demonstrate and dis...
AND THAT; your being saved by grace through faith. THE GIFT OF GOD; all that is good in man, and all the good which he enjoys, are the gracious gift of God....
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD;...
BELIEVERS CHANGED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH (vs.1-10) The first three verse of chapter 2 go back to consider the state and circumstances from which the Ephesians had been brought, the same sad state to...
CHAPTER 2 Before we can fully understand the _________ we have in Christ, we must understand our condition of our __________ without Christ. God has ____________ us. This word means that God has mad...
“for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” “FOR”: Such kindness is proof of God's unmerited favor. “God would have to be kind to offer pardon to...
1-10 Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit is now fled, an...
FOR BY GRACE, the free favour of God, as EPHESIANS 2:5, _are ye, _ even ye Ephesians, Gentiles, who had not such promises made to you as the Jews had, EPHESIANS 2:12, SAVED, from first to last, from y...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians into which joy many desire to enter, knowing that "by grace ye are saved, not of works,"[7] Fragments from Peter of Alexandria whence also by grace we are sav...
Ephesians 2:8 For G1063 grace G5485 been G2075 (G5748) saved G4982 (G5772) through G1223 faith G4102 and...
‘For by grace you are those who are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' This links back to ‘in Christ Jesus'. We are in t...
Ephesians 2:8. FOR BY GRACE, etc. The Apostle now reverts to the means by which deliverance has been wrought, repeating the clause introduced parenthetically in Ephesians 2:5. Here, however, the artic...
1. _Redemption in Christ as Deliverance from Death through a New Creation._ The Apostle applies to his readers the great truths set forth in chap. 1, having in mind ‘the mighty working of the Father,...
FOR BY GRACE (τη γαρ χαριτ). Explanatory reason. "By the grace" already mentioned in verse Ephesians 2:5 and so with the article.THROUGH FAITH (δια πιστεως). This phrase he adds in repeating what...
GRACE Grace (in salvation). Ephesians 5, 7, 8; (Colossians 1:6); (Romans 3:24); (John 1:17). (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:17). _
Ephesians 2:8 Salvation by Grace. I. To Paul the doctrine of justification by faith was not a final statement of Christian truth. It was not a formula which could be used mechanically for constructin...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:_ These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, a...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ What a great change, then, has taken place in the people of God! It is described as being similar to the resurrection...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Then you owe your very life to him. You were dead, you were like a corrupt carcass, but his life has been breathed in...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ Is it so? Can anyone lay his hand on your shoulder, and say right into your ear, «You hath he quickened»? If so, why this deadness of spirit? Why this worl...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ You, who were by nature dead are now made alive unto God by the holy Spirit. If you had nothing else to think of, all day long, but just these five words,...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you he hath quickened._ Is it so? Could the apostle say that to you, and to me? Ephesians 2:1. _Who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Look back to what you used to be, to the h...
CONTENTS: Method of Gentile salvation. Jew and Gentile made one body in Christ, a habitation of God through the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A state of sin apart from Christ, is a sta...
Ephesians 2:1. _You hath he quickened._ The word quickened is not in the Greek, but the old Latin version repeats it here from the fifth verse, presuming it to be implied. It reads well without it, th...
FOR IT IS. "Neither the works of The Law nor the secrets of the mystery religions could ever save you and set you free from ignorance and superstition. Only God's grace could make that available to yo...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:8 GRACE. God’s favor on those who have broken his law and sinned against him. God’s grace offers and secures salvation. SAVED. Delivered from God’s wrath at the final jud...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 2:4. BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY.—“Unto all that call upon Him” (Romans 10:12). “He hath shut up all into disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all”...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 2:1 SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS. This passage corresponds to Genesis 1:1. It is a history of creation, and we note the same great stages. 1. C
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter. Paul is going to talk about someone tonight...very interesting. You! Well, at least you are interested in the subject. For many of you...
1 John 5:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 13:39; Acts 14:27; Acts 15:7;
For by grace, etc. This may truly be called exceeding riches of grace, for ye are saved by grace. Grace has the article, the grace of God, in vers. 5, 7. And that. Not faith, but the salvation. Of Go...
GRACE IN OPERATION Ephesians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our sins....
A GOD-PLANNED LIFE Ephesians 2:8; _Romans 12:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read of Epaphras that he prayed for the saints that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. The will of G...
By grace ye are saved through faith — Grace, without any respect to human worthiness, confers the glorious gift. Faith, with an empty hand, and without any pretence to personal desert, receives the he...
In these words our apostle informs the Ephesians, and in them all succeeding Christians, that their complete salvation, from the first to the last, from the lowest to the highest step, depends upon Go...