Combined Bible Commentary
Ephesians 2:6
Ascended with Christ
Ascended with Christ
Verse Ephesians 2:6. _AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER IN CHRIST_] Or rather, _by Christ_; his resurrection being the proof that he had made the full atonement, and that we might be justified by his bl...
AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER - That is, we are raised from the death of sin to the life of religion, in connection with the resurrection of Jesus, and in virtue of that. So close is the connection b...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
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...
HATH RAISED, &C. = raised... together (with Him). Greek. _sunegeiro._ Only here. Co Ephesians 1:2; Ephesians 1:12; Ephesians 3:1. MADE US, &C.. made us to sit down together. Greek. _sunkathizo._ Onl
_and hath raised_us _up together_, &c. Better, DID RAISE, &c. The radical idea of _new life_is here put into more detail, as a resurrection and ascension; the special form of the Lord's Revival. "_Tog...
ΚΑῚ ΣΥΝΉΓΕΙΡΕΝ ΚΑῚ ΣΥΝΕΚΆΘΙΣΕΝ. The new life in which we share is connected both with the Resurrection and with the Ascension of Christ Jesus, cf. Ephesians 1:20. The union with the Resurrection is em...
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...
ΣΥΝΉΓΕΙΡΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G4891) поднимать вместе с кем-л. Верующие не просто получают жизнь, они переживают воскресение (Eadie). _Aor._ указывает на специфическое событие, ΣΥΝΕΚΆΘΙΣ...
DISCOURSE: 2098 THE RICHES OF DIVINE GRACE DISPLAYED Ephesians 2:4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together...
AND HATH RAISED US UP, &C.— What the Apostle here says, does not merely signify our being raised to the hope of pardon and glory by the resurrection and ascension of Christ, but seems to refer to that...
_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.
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: RAISED US UP TOGETHER - with Christ. The 'raising up' pre-supposes previous quickening of Jesus in the...
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...
The thought in these verses follows exactly the same course as in Ephesians 1:19. There the type and earnest of the working of God’s mighty power are placed in the resurrection, the ascension, the glo...
CHAPTER 7 FROM DEATH TO LIFE Ephesians 2:1 We pass by a sudden transition, just as in Colossians 1:21, from the thought of that which God wrought in Christ Himself to that which He works through Chr...
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...
καὶ συνήγειρεν : _and raised us with Him_. That is, to life now, in a present spiritual renewal. The συνήγειρεν expresses the definite idea of _resurrection_, and primarily that of the physical resurr...
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,...
In Christ Jesus Just as God's justice and righteousness called for wrath upon sinful man, his abundant mercy flowing out of his multi-faceted love caused him to make provision for lost mankind. He mad...
And hath raised [us] up (g) together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: (g) That is, as he adds afterwards, in Christ, for as yet this is not fulfilled in us, but only...
(1) В¶ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; (2) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the s...
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...
6._And hath raised us up together. _The resurrection and sitting in heaven, which are here mentioned, are not yet seen by mortal eyes. Yet, as if those blessings were presently in our possession, he s...
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 HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER,.... Which refers either to a spiritual resurrection, to a resurrection from a death in sin, to a spiritual life; and which is the effect of almighty power, and of rich...
And hath raised _us_ up together, and made _us_ sit together in heavenly _places_ in Christ Jesus: Ver. 6. _And made us sit together_] We have taken up our rooms beforehand in heaven, whereunto we ha...
Eph. 2:6. "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." The meaning is not, hath made us sit together with one another, but together with Christ; as it...
_But God, who is rich in mercy_ That is, in compassion for us, amidst our sins and miseries, and in his free, gratuitous goodness and readiness to pardon the guilty, and save the lost: _for his great...
RAISED US UP TOGETHER-MADE US SIT TOGETHER; that is, together with Christ, as in the preceding verse. IN HEAVENLY PLACES; see note to chap Ephesians 1:3. IN CHRIST JESUS; all this takes place in and...
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS,...
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...
“AND RAISED US UP WITH HIM, AND MADE US TO SIT WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES, IN CHRIST JESUS” “And raised us up with Him”: Here is another phrase that is used in reference to baptism (Romans 6:3; C...
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...
AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER; either this may be understood of a further degree of spiritual life in the progress of sanctification vouchsafed to believers in this world; or rather, of the resurrect...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments The Father of immortality sent the immortal Son and Word into the world, who came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and He, begetti...
Ephesians 2:6 and G2532 together G4891 (G5656) and G2532 together G4776 (G5656) in G1722 heavenly G2032 in...
‘But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are those who are saved), and...
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,...
Ephesians 2:6. AND RAISED US UP TOGETHER, etc. The thought of Ephesians 2:5 is carried out in detail: ‘Together' is = ‘with Him,' Christ, whose Resurrection and exaltation have already been set forth...
IN CHRIST JESUS (εν Χριστω Ιησου). All the preceding turns on this phrase. See Colossians 3:1 for the word συνηγειρεν.MADE TO SIT WITH HIM (συνεκαθισεν). First aorist active indicative of συνκαθι...
Ephesians 2:4 I. Note the three privileges which are here supposed to belong to believers. (1) They are quickened. There can be no doubt that this privilege, in some intelligible sense at least, is en...
Ephesians 2:6 The Church a Home for the Lonely. The subject suggested by the text is the need which mankind lies under of some shelter, refuge, rest, home, or sanctuary from the outward world, and t...
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...
IN OUR UNION. "We became Christians by being united to Christ (Galatians 3:27), and in this union God raised us to life from our dead spiritual state (Colossians 2:12). But more than this, in our unio...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:6 RAISED US UP WITH HIM. Because of Christ’s resurrection, those who believe in him are given new spiritual life. SEATED US WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES. God has allow...
_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...
Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:13; Colossians 3:1;...
Raised us up. Compare Romans 6:5. Made us sit together [σ υ ν ε κ α θ ι σ ε ν]. Compare set Him, ch. 1 20. Together is ambiguous. Render with Him, as Rev. "Even now we sit there in Him, and shall sit...
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....
And hath raised us up together — Both Jews and gentiles already in spirit; and ere long our bodies too will be raised. And made us all sit together in heavenly places — This is spoken by way of antici...
The apostle here instances in two branches more of that salvation which he had in the foregoing verse affirmed to be of grace, namely, that of our resurrection and glorification; both which are yet to...