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Ephesians 2:20
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Corner-stone;
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Corner-stone;
Verse 20. _AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION_] Following the same metaphor, comparing the Church of Christ to a _city_, and to the _temple_, the believing Ephesians are represented as _parts of_ _tha...
AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION - The comparison of the church with a building, is common in the Scriptures: compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 3:9. The comparison was probably taken from the temple...
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 you are no longer strangers and foreigners resident in a land that is not their own, but you are fellow citizens with God's consecrated people and members of the family of God. It is on the fo...
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...
AND ARE. Having been. Compare Acts 20:32. UPON. App-104. THE FOUNDATION... PROPHETS. The foundation _laid_ by the apostles and prophets (compare Hebrews 2:3; Hebrews 2:4;...
_and are built_ Better, HAVING BEEN BUILT; once built (aorist), by your Redeemer. The metaphor here boldly changes, from the inmates of city and house, to the structure. Possibly the element "_house_...
ἘΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ. The use of οἰκοδομή and οἰκοδομεῖν in a purely metaphorical sense to describe moral ‘edification’ is common enough in St Paul, but the application of the figure of a building as a di...
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.
ΈΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΈΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ (G2026) утверждать на чем-л. Богосл. _pass._ указывает на Бога как на действующее лицо, ΘΕΜΈΛΙΟΣ (G2310) основание. ΤΩΝ ΆΠΟΣΤΌΛΩΝ ΚΑΊ ΠΡΟΦΗΤ...
DISCOURSE: 2102 THE EXALTED PRIVILEGES OF TRUE CHRISTIANS Ephesians 2:19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and a...
AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION, &C.— "And ye are still more closely united to Christ, and to the Father in him, not only as citizens to their supreme magistrate, and as children to their father; bu...
_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.)
(2:20-22) Note in this passage that there is no reference to the priesthood of Israel in the building. First, there is the "chief cornerstone", Jesus our Lord. Second, there are the "apostles". From t...
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; [ Epoikodomeethentes (G2026), 'built up upon,' etc.; having been built up upon: om...
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...
(20-22) In these verses there is a sudden change from a political to a physical metaphor, possibly suggested by the word “household.” The metaphor itself, of the Church as “a building of God” — freque...
BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS. — In spite of much ancient and valuable authority, it seems impossible to take “the prophets” of this verse to be the prophets of the Old Testam...
(2 _c._)_ Ephesians 2:19_ sum up the two-fold idea of this chapter — union of the Gentiles, with God and with God’s chosen people — in the metaphor of the One Temple, of which Jesus Christ is the chie...
CHAPTER 11 GOD'S TEMPLE IN HUMANITY Ephesians 2:19 Now unfrequently it is the last word or phrase of the paragraph that gives us the clue to St. Paul's meaning and discloses the point at which he ha...
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...
ἐποικοδομηθέντες ἐπὶ τῷ θεμελίῳ : _being built upon the foundation_. From the idea of the _house_ or _household_ of God contained in the οἰκεῖοι Paul passes by an easy transition to that of the _build...
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,...
God's Temple The church is a building with individual Christians laid as its stones on the foundation of Christ (1 Peter 2:5). The apostles and prophets of the first century were the ones who proclaim...
(15) And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the (r) chief corner [stone]; (15) The Lord committed the doctrine of salvation, first to the prophets,...
The Church is in this place said to be built upon the apostles and prophets; why not then upon St. Peter?...
(19) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (20) And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus...
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...
20._And are built_. The third comparison illustrates the manner in which the Ephesians, and all other Christians are admitted to the honor of being _fellow-citizens with the saints and of the househol...
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...
AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS,.... The prophets of the Old Testament, and the apostles of the New, who agree in laying ministerially the one and only foundation, Jesus...
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner _stone_; Ver. 20. _Upon the foundation_] Foundation is taken either for Christ, 1 Corinthia...
Eph. 2:19-22 Eph. 2:19-22. "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward, etc. - According to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, when he raised him from...
_Now, therefore_ Being thus reconciled; _ye_ Believing Gentiles; _are no more strangers and foreigners_ If it be necessary to make any distinction as to the signification of these two words, in the fo...
ARE BUILT; into a spiritual temple. THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; the foundation laid by them; in other words, the doctrine preached by them, the corner-stone of which is Jesus Christ....
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...
“BEING BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNER STONE” “Being built upon”: “You are. building which has been reared on the foundation” (Wey)....
19-22 The church is compared to a city, and every converted sinner is free of it. It is also compared to a house, and every converted sinner is one of the family; a servant, and a child in God's hous...
AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; the foundation which the apostles and prophets laid by their preaching, viz. Christ, whom they held forth as the only Mediator between G...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth " "And the stones, sir," I said, "which were taken out of the pit and fitted into the building: what are they? "The first," he said, "the ten, viz, that were placed...
Ephesians 2:20 built G2026 (G5685) on G1909 foundation G2310 apostles G652 and G2532 prophets G4396 Jesus G2424 C
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 2:20. BUILT UP UPON THE FOUNDATION. The figure naturally passes over into that of a house in which God dwells (Ephesians 2:22). The participle expresses the notion of a _superstructure,_ in...
BEING BUILT UPON (εποικοδομηθεντες). First aorist passive participle of εποικοδομεω, for which double compound verb see 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 2:17.THE FOUNDATION (επ τω θεμελιω). Repet...
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 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...
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...
YOU TOO. "The Jews, and you Gentiles too, are built into the spiritual temple of God as _living stones_ (1 Peter 2:5)! You are built on the foundation which the apostles and prophets laid by proclaimi...
_Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets._ THE CHRISTIA...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:20 THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS. Some think “prophets” refers here to those in the early church who had the gift of prophecy (compare...
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 2:19. SO THEN.—Inference of Ephesians 2:14. STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS.—By the latter word is meant those who temporarily abide in a place, but are without the...
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 12:28; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:4; 1 Peter 2:5;...
Of the apostles and prophets. The foundation laid by them. Prophets are New - Testament prophets. See ch. Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 4:11. See on 1 Corinthians 12:10. Chief corner - stone [α κ ρ ο γ ω...
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets — As the foundation sustains the building, so the word of God, declared by the apostles and prophets, sustains the faith of all believers...