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Verse 11. _WHEREFORE REMEMBER_] That ye may ever see and feel your
obligations to live a pure and holy life, and be unfeignedly
_thankful_ to God for your salvation, remember that ye _were once_
_hea...
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WHEREFORE REMEMBER - The design of this evidently is, to excite a
sense of gratitude in their bosoms for that mercy which had called
them from the errors and sins of their former lives, to the privile...
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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
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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...
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THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
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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...
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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...
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UNCIRCUMCISION. See Romans 2:25.
BY. App-104.
THE. Omit.
MADE BY HANDS. Greek. _cheiropoietos._ In the Epp. only here and
Hebrews 9:11; Hebrews 9:24. Made Jews by _rite_. Compare...
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ΔΙῸ with reference to the whole preceding paragraph.
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ. There is a striking parallel (noticed by G. H.
Whitaker) between this appeal and the appeal to Israel in Deuteronomy
5:15, &c. (cf. al...
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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.
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ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно,
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. act. imper. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ
(G3421) помнить. Это слово обозначает
покаяние, решимость и благодарность
(Barth).
ΌΤ (G3754) что, указывает на содержание
то...
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_EPHESIANS 2:11_.— From the foregoing doctrine, that God, of his
free grace, according to his purpose from the beginning, had quickened
and raised the convert Gentiles together with Christ, and seated...
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_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.)
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Their former state...
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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;
WHEREFORE - since God has ma...
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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...
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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....
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IN THE FLESH] repeated for emphasis; it was in the flesh that the
difference between Jew and Gentile was marked. CALLED] NOT
contemptuous in either place; not' so-called.' The distinction was
real eno...
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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...
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GENTILES IN THE FLESH — _i.e.,_ not having the bodily impress of
circumcision, sealing the Jewish covenant.
WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE
CIRCUMCISION. — The use of the phr...
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CHAPTER 9
THE FAR AND NEAR
Ephesians 2:11
The apostle's "Wherefore" sums up for his readers the record of their
salvation rehearsed in the previous verses. "You were buried in your
sins, sunk in the...
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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...
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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,...
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The Gentiles' Condition Without Christ
Anyone who has been converted as an adult, especially if he lived a
very wicked life, would do well from time to time to think back to the
life he led prior to b...
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(10) Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the
flesh, who are (k) called Uncircumcision by that which is (l) called
the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
(10) Applying t...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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11._Wherefore remember. _The apostle never once loses sight of his
subject, marks it out clearly, and pursues it with increasing
earnestness. He again exhorts the Ephesians to remember what their
char...
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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...
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WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE BE IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH,....
This, with what follows in the next verse, the apostle puts the
converted Ephesians in mind of, in order to magnify the grace of...
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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;
Ver. 11. _Who are called unc...
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_Wherefore_ To increase your sense of God's goodness in saving you,
and of the obligation he hath thereby laid on you to do good works;
_remember that ye being in time past Gentiles_ Ignorant, vicious...
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REMEMBER; the apostle affectionately reminds the gentile converts of
the unspeakable gift they have received in being introduced, through
Christ, into his church.
GENTILES IN THE FLESH; in contrast w...
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A special reminder to the Gentile Christians:...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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“WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT ONCE YE, THE GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO
ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED CIRCUMCISION, IN THE
FLESH, MADE BY HANDS”
“Wherefore remember”: “Paul was asking th...
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11-13 Christ and his covenant are the foundation of all the
Christian's hopes. A sad and terrible description is here; but who is
able to remove himself out of it? Would that this were not a true
des...
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IN THE FLESH; either:
1. Carnal, unregenerate, as ROMANS 8:8,9. Or rather:
2. Uncircumcised in the flesh, as well as in heart, EZEKIEL 44:7; such
as neither had the grace signified, nor the sign repr...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII
To illustrate: the noble apostle circumcised Timothy, though loudly
declaring and writing that circumcision made with hands profits
nothing.[80]
Tertullian Ag...
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Ephesians 2:11 Therefore G1352 remember G3421 (G5720) that G3754 you
G5210 once G4218 Gentiles G1484 in G1722 wh
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‘Wherefore remember, that previously you were the Gentiles in the
flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, that at that time you were
separ...
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THEY ARE TO REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE ONCE EXCLUDED FROM ISRAEL AND THE
PROMISES BUT ARE NOW MADE ONE WITH THE TRUE ISRAEL; THEY ARE NOW THE
PEOPLE OF GOD (2:11-3:12)
Paul here goes on to point out that...
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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...
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Ephesians 2:11. WHEREFORE. Since you have been blessed, as set forth
in Ephesians 2:1-7, ‘the declaratory portion of the foregoing
paragraph' (Ellicott).
REMEMBER. The exhortation, as is evident, is...
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WHEREFORE
(διο). This conjunction applies to the Gentile Christians the
arguments in Ephesians 2:1-10.THAT AFORETIME YE
(οτ ποτε υμεις). No verb is expressed, but in verse
Ephesians 2:12 Paul repe...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU GENTILES. "To strengthen your sense of God's goodness in saving
you, and to show you the obligation that this salvation places on you
to live a life of good works, I ask you to remember what you w...
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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
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 2:11. WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE, ETC.—All that follows
in the verse serves to define the “ye,” the verb following in
Ephesians 2:12 after the repeated “ye”...
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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
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel
17:36;...
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Uncircumcision - circumcision. Abstract for concrete terms, the
uncircumcised and circumcised.
Which is called. Notice the irony, giving back the called of the
circumcised....
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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....
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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...
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Wherefore remember — Such a remembrance strengthens faith, and
increases gratitude. That ye being formerly gentiles in the flesh —
Neither circumcised in body nor in spirit. Who were accordingly calle...
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Our apostle doth two things in these two verses, namely,
1. He calls upon the Ephesians to remember their former miserable
condition before conversion, when they were in their heathen and
unregenerate...