Ephesians 2:1-22
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR] Jewish phraseology, as in Ephesians 1:21. The air is regarded as full of evil powers, with Satan as their prince (Ephesians 6:12; Luke 22:53; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:13).... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO WE] 'we Jews were as dead in sins as you Gentiles, and were thus objects of God's wrath' (Ephesians 5:6). HAD OUR CONVERSATION] RV 'lived.'... [ Continue Reading ]
QUICKENED US.. WITH CHRIST] 'made uS, who were morally dead, to share the life of Christ.' 6, 8, 9.'No merit of our own has saved us; it is all God's free gift.'... [ Continue Reading ]
CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS] He means the new creation, by which the whole human race, reunited in Christ, makes a fresh start (Ephesians 2:14; Ephesians 4:24; Galatians 6:15). Mankind began as one race; it was split in two; it is now one again. 11-22. 'Ye Gentiles were formerly cut off from Israel and... [ Continue Reading ]
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 enough, but it has been done away.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT GOD] 'Atheists'; the only place where the word occurs in the Bible: the heathen were 'godless.'... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW] The blessed contrast is enlarged upon at four times the length (Ephesians 2:13) of the original sad condition (Ephesians 2:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
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 level of the Court of the Women in the Temple. It was death for a Gentile to pass the barrier. 15. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE BUILDING] This is the right meaning: only one building is in the Apostle's mind, as the preceding vv. show. The RV'S accuracy is here misleading: cp. 'all' in Ephesians 1:8; Colossians 4:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THROUGH THE SPIRIT] RV 'in the Spirit.' It is in the Spirit's dwelling in us that God dwells in us.... [ Continue Reading ]