Ephesians 2:17 eivrh,nhn (2)
The Textus Receptus, following several later witnesses (K L many minuscules syrp, h al), omits the second instance of eivrh,nhn, probably because it seemed redundant and therefore superfluous. Its presence, however, not only is strongly attested by good witnesses (î46 a A B D F G P itd, g vg copsa, bo goth arm eth al), but also adds significantly to the force of the writer’s statement.
Verse 17. _AND CAME AND PREACHED PEACE_] Proclaimed the readiness of God to forgive and save both Jews and Gentiles. Ephesians 2:13, Ephesians 2:13....
AND CAME AND PREACHED PEACE - That is, the system of religion which he proclaimed, was adapted to produce peace with God. This he preached personally to those who “were nigh,” that is, the Jews; to th...
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...
CAME. having come (Aor.) AND PREACHED PEACE. He preached the good news (App-121.) peace. AND. The texts add "peace"....
_and came_ from the work of the Cross, from the Grave. "Peace" was His first word in Resurrection-life to His gathered Church (John 20:19); and that Church was then, and not till then, sent to the wor...
ἘΛΘῺΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The glad tidings of peace are the fruits of the Passion. So the ‘coming’ can only refer to the appearances after the Resurrection (so Bengel). The aorists (both ἘΛΘῺΝ and ΕΥ̓ΗΓΓΕΛΊΣΑΤΟ) s...
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.
ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. Part, средства. _Aor._ обозначает предшествующее действие, ΕΎΗΓΓΕΛΊΣΑΤΟΑΟΓ. _ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G2097) провозглашать благую вест...
TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR OFF, &C.— _To those that were afar off, and to those,_ &c. that is, _Gentiles_ and _Jews._ See Junius in Wetstein....
_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.)
One Gospel is to both Jew and Gentile...
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Translate 'He came (of His free love) and announced glad tidings of [ eueengelisato (G2097)] peace to the apostle...
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...
(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...
AND CAME AND PREACHED PEACE. — The word “came” certainly carries back our thoughts to our Lord’s own preaching, when, after the Resurrection, He came “and stood in the midst of them, and said, Peace b...
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...
καὶ ἐλθὼν εὐηγγελίσατο εἰρήνην ὑμῖν τοῖς μακρὰν καὶ εἰρήνην τοῖς ἐγγύς : _and He came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh_. The TR reads simply καὶ τοῖς ἐγγύς...
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...
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,...
Peace Proclaimed By Christ Christ proclaimed his fervent desire for peace in his death on the cross. Then, he sent the apostles into all the world with the message of peace (Luke 24:45-48). Just as th...
(13) And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (13) The preaching of the Gospel is an effectual instrument of this grace, common to the Jews as well as to th...
(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...
17._And came and preached peace. _All that Christ had done towards effecting a reconciliation would have been of no service, if it had not been proclaimed by the gospel; and therefore he adds, that th...
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 CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR OFF,.... Which is to be understood not of Christ's coming in the flesh; for when he came in the flesh, he came only to the Jews that were nigh, and p...
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Ver. 17. _To them that were nigh_] That is, "the children of Israel, a people near unto him," Psalms 148:14 ....
_Having abolished in his flesh_ By the sufferings and death endured therein; _the_ cause of _enmity_ between the Jews and Gentiles, _even the law_ of ceremonial _commandments, contained in ordinances_...
TO YOU; you Gentiles, WHICH WERE AFAR OFF; from God. See verse Ephesians 2:12. TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH; to the Jews, who, in their outward relation, were nigh to God. To both he preached peace with Go...
AND CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR OFF, AND TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH....
The reconciliation effected by 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...
“AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU THAT WERE FAR OFF, AND PEACE TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH” “He came and preached peace”: This appears to be preaching which followed His cross, for it includes preach...
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...
AND CAME; partly in his own person, as to the Jews, and partly by his apostles, whom he appointed to preach the gospel to the Gentiles: so 2 CORINTHIANS 13:3. AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III He, appearing in these last times, the chief cornerstone, has gathered into one, and united those that were far off and those that were near;[20] Tertullian Agains...
Ephesians 2:17 And G2532 came G2064 (G5631) preached G2097 (G5668) peace G1515 you G5213 were G3588 off...
Ephesians 2:17. AND HE CAME AND PREACHED (‘brought good tidings of') PEACE. This verse is not dependent on what precedes, but is connected in thought with, ‘He is our peace' (Ephesians 2:14), which is...
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...
PREACHED PEACE (ευηγγελισατο ειρηνην). First aorist middle of ευαγγελιζω. "He gospelized peace" to both Jew and Gentile, "to the far off ones" (τοις μακραν) and "to the nigh ones" (τοις εγγυς). By...
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 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;_ 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...
SO CHRIST CAME AND PREACHED. See Hebrews 1:2 and note. Paul points back to the First Coming and God's finished work in Christ! The long awaited time has now come and the apostles and the _church_ anno...
_And came and preached peace to you which were afar off._ CHRIST PREACHING PEACE This refers not merely to the time Christ lived as a Man upon earth, but also to His preaching through the Spirit in...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:16 On the cross, Christ put to death the hostility between Israel and the other nations. These verses describe the new, unified group being brought near to God. Paul desc...
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...
2 Corinthians 5:20; Acts 10:36; Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 4:7; Ephes
And he came — After his resurrection. And preached peace — By his ministers and his Spirit. To you — Gentiles. That were afar off — At the utmost distance from God. And to them that were nigh — To the...