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Ephesians 2:14
For he is our Peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us,
For he is our Peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us,
Verse 14. _FOR HE IS OUR PEACE_] Jesus Christ has died for both Jews and Gentiles, and has become a _peace-offering_, _shalom_, to reconcile both to God and to each other. _WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE_] F...
FOR HE IS OUR PEACE - There is evident allusion here to Isaiah 57:19. See the notes at that verse. The “peace” here referred to is that by which a “union” in worship and in feeling has been produced b...
3. THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN Chapter S 2:11-3:21 _ 1. The condition of the Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11)_ 2. But now in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:13) 3. The new and great relationship (Ephesians 2
THE GENTILE IS NOW ONE WITH THE JEW IN GOD'S NEW MAN, AND AN INTEGRAL PART OF GOD'S TEMPLE. Those who, like the readers, were once Gentiles, are especially bound to remember the condition from which t...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
So then remember, that once, as far as human descent goes, you were Gentiles; you were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical thing, and a thing pro...
But as things now are, because of what Christ Jesus has done, you who were once far off have been brought near, at the price of the blood of Christ. For it is he who is our peace; it is he who made bo...
PEACE. Peace itself, objectively, and its Author (1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:16), to us and in us. Compare Isaiah 9:6;...
_he is our peace_ "_He:_" the glorious living Person gives its essence to the sacrificial Work. " _Our peace:_" i.e., as the connexion indicates, the "peace" between the Tribes of the New Israel, the...
ΑἸΤῸΣ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΤΙΝ Ἡ ΕἸΡΉΝΗ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. Cf. Micah 5:5; Isaiah 9:6. It is characteristic of this group of Epistles that the effect should be regarded as due in the first instance to what Christ is in Himself r...
Ephesians 2:15. ΚΑΤΑΡΓΉΣΑΣ אAB &c. καταρτίσας D*. Ephesians 2:21. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜῊ א*BDG _al_ Clem Orig Chrys. πᾶσα ἡ οἰκ. א*ACP _al mult_. Ephesians 3:5. Τ. ἉΓΊΟΙΣ�. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΙΣ אAC &c.
ΑΎΤΌΣ (G846) Он Сам. Местоимение используется, чтобы подчеркнуть контраст. Ή ΕΙΡΉΝΗ (G1515) мир. См. также DPL, 698-99. Артикль используется с именным praed. для обозначения настоящего как чего-л. хор...
HE IS OUR PEACE,— Mr. Locke would have this to be the same with _your peace,_ and to be meant of the Gentile converts of whom the Apostle had been speaking just before; but it is evident that the reco...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 2:11-22) D. Once aliens, now fellow-citizens with the saints. Ephesians 2:11-22. (This section is addressed to Gentile Christians, Ephesians 2:11.)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; HE - Greek, 'Himself,' and none else. OUR PEACE - not merely 'peacemaker,' but the sole sou...
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....
HE IS OUR PEACE] emphatic pronoun; 'it is He who is our peace.' THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION is perhaps an allusion to the warning barrier which marked off the Court of the Gentiles from the higher le...
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...
HE (_Himself_) IS OUR PEACE. — There is clearly allusion, as to the many promises in the Old Testament of the “Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:5, _et_ al.), so still more to the “Peace of Earth” of the ang...
(2 _b._)_ Ephesians 2:14_ pass on from the description of the call of the heathen to personal union with God in Christ, to dwell on the perfect unity and equality of Jew and Gentile with each other in...
CHAPTER 10 THE DOUBLE RECONCILIATION Ephesians 2:14 "PEACE, peace-to the far off, and to the near!" Such was God's promise to His scattered people in the times of the exile. Isaiah 57:19 St. Paul se...
The second half of this chapter makes a paragraph by itself. Its subject is the case of those Gentile believers whom Paul has immediately in view their heathen past and their Christian present. They a...
αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν : _for He is our Peace_. As most commentators notice, the emphasis is on the αὐτός “He and no other”. But there is probably more in it than that. The selection of the abs...
RECONCILED AND UNITED BY THE CROSS Ephesians 2:11 The state of the unconverted must be described by a series of negations. Shut the sun out of the world, love out of the home, liberty out of the stat...
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,...
Made Nigh By the Blood of Christ Like stepping into the light of midday from a room with no windows, the Gentiles who obeyed the gospel drew nigh to God. This also brought near all the blessings they...
(12) For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; (12) As by the ceremonies and worship appointed by the Law, the Jews were divided fro...
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 hi...
(11) В¶ Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; (12) That at that time...
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...
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...
14._For he is our peace. _He now includes Jews in the privilege of reconciliation, and shows that, through one Messiah, all are united to God. This consideration was fitted to repress the false confid...
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 HE IS OUR PEACE,.... The author of peace between Jew and Gentile: there was a great enmity of the Jew against the Gentile, and of the Gentile against the Jew; and chiefly on account of circumcisio...
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition _between us_; Ver. 14. _For he is our peace_] That is, our peace maker and peace matter. _a_ When he was...
_But now in Christ Jesus_ In consequence of your union with him, and your interest in him by faith, _ye, who_ formerly _were far off_ From God and his people, (as in Ephesians 2:12,) _are made nigh_ t...
OUR PEACE; the author and ground of our peace-peace in the widest sense: first, between man and God, verses Ephesians 2:16-18; and then, as a consequence of this, between Jews and Gentiles, verses Eph...
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 He is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition” “FOR”: “_ He_ is strongly emphatic. It is He, Christ Jesus, who shed His blood on the cross” _(Stott p. 98)._ “In....
14-18 Jesus Christ made peace by the sacrifice of himself; in every sense Christ was their Peace, the author, centre, and substance of their being at peace with God, and of their union with the Jewis...
FOR HE IS OUR PEACE; i.e. Peace-maker, or Mediator of peace, both between God and man, and between Jew and Gentile. He is called OUR PEACE, as elsewhere our righteousness, redemption, salvation. God i...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V For the Creator's righteousness no less than His peace was announced in Christ, as we have often shown already. Therefore he says: "He is our peace, who hath made bo...
Ephesians 2:14 For G1063 Himself G846 is G2076 (G5748) our G2257 peace G1515 who G3588 made G4160 ...
‘For he himself is our peace, who has made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that h...
2. _Redemption in Christ as Reconciliation between Jew and Gentile_, _because both are reconciled with God._ The Apostle bases upon his previous statement (especially Ephesians 2:1-7) an exhortation t...
Ephesians 2:14. FOR. This introduces a confirmatory explanation of the preceding verse. HE IS OUR PEACE. The subject is emphatic: ‘He and none other'; the personal Christ, whose blood was shed, is Hi...
FOR HE IS OUR PEACE (αυτος γαρ εστιν η ειρηνη ημων). He himself, not just what he did (necessary as that was and is). He is our peace with God and so with each other (Jews and Gentiles).BOTH ONE...
Ephesians 2:11 Judaism and Christianity. I. To Paul the moral confusion and the religious desolation of the Gentiles were appalling. He believed that they were enduring the just penalties of their ow...
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...
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 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, 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, 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...
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 CHRIST HIMSELF. "Christ died for the Gentiles as well as the Jews! With his own body of flesh, he brought us peace by breaking down the wall of The Law, which like the _wall of separation_ in the...
_For He is our Peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition._ CHRIST OUR PEACE 1. Christ Jesus is the author of all our peace. (1) In restoring the amity and fri...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:14 PEACE. The state of friendship with God and with one another in the church. MADE US BOTH ONE. That is, Jews and Gentiles. IN HIS FLESH refers to Christ’
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:11 Unity and the Peace of Christ. Paul continues the new creation theme he introduced in v. Ephesians 2:10. The focus shifts from G
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 2:13. YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH.—The Gentile may sing his hymn in Jewish words: “Doubtless Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant...
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 Corinthians 12:12; Acts 10:28; Acts 10:36; Colossians 1:20;...
Our peace [η ε ι ρ η ν η η μ ω ν]. Christ is similarly described in abstract terms in 1 Corinthians 1:30; wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption. So Colossians 1:27, hope of glory. Christ i...
For he is our peace — Not only as he purchased it, but as he is the very bond and centre of union. He who hath made both — Jews and gentiles, one church. The apostle describes, The conjunction of the...
HE IS OUR PEACE: that is, 1. He is the Mediator of our peace, the great peace-maker betwixt God and men. 2. HE IS OUR PEACE: that is, the purchaser of our peace. 3. HE IS OUR PEACE; that is, the es...