Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins. — These words should be connected, not with “loved us,” but with “hath quickened,” or rather, quickened. He brought life out of spiritual death.
Even when we were dead in sins. — These words should be connected, not with “loved us,” but with “hath quickened,” or rather, quickened. He brought life out of spiritual death.
EPHESIANS 2:5 tw|/ Cristw|/ {B} The reading evn tw|/ Cristw|/ (î46 B 33 _al_) seems to have arisen from either accidental dittography of the previous &en, or from deliberate assimilation to evn Crist...
Verse Ephesians 2:5. _EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS_] Dead in our souls; dead towards God; dead in law; and exposed to death eternal, _HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST_] God has given us as c...
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS - notes, Ephesians 2:1; compare Romans 5:8. The construction here is, “God, who is rich in mercy, on account of the great love which he bare unto us, even being dead in...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
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...
SINS. As trespasses in Ephesians 2:1. HATH. Omit. QUICKENED... TOGETHER. made... alive with. Greek. _suzoopoieo._ Only here and Co Ephesians 1:2; Ephesians 1:13. CHRIST. App-98....
_dead in sins_ Better, IN RESPECT OF OUR TRESPASSES. See on Ephesians 2:1 the construction is the same. _hath quickened_ DID QUICKEN, i.e., bring from death to life; ideally, when our Lord and Head r...
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...
ΣΥΝΕΖΩΟΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ [ἘΝ] ΤΩ͂Ι ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι. The various readings here are of great interest and it is hard to decide between them. Either of them might quite easily have given rise to the other, though perhaps...
ΌΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. acc. masc. pl._ от ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Temp. part._: "даже когда" (Lincoln), ΣΥΝΕΖΩΟΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΖΩΟΠΟΙΈΩ (G4806) оживлять вместе с кем-л. Это слово — синони...
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...
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD, &C.— "In this wonderful love, with which he of his own good pleasure has loved us, even when we Jews, as well as Gentiles, one as much as another, were in such forlorn, wretche...
_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.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) DEAD IN SINS - `dead in our [ tois (G3588), the] trespasses.' QUICKENED - `vivified' spiritually;...
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...
2:5 saved (f-15) 'Saved.' The perfect tense, not the principle on which we are saved, but the actual fact, what has been done and so abides. so ver. 8....
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.'...
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...
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 ὄντας ἡμᾶς νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν : _even when we were dead by our trespasses_. The condition of death in which we are by nature is now reaffirmed, and in a still more emphatic way than in Ephe...
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...
_Quickened us together in Christ. Faith, baptism, and grace, are pledges of our future resurrection and glorification in heaven. Our present conversion is also a kind of resurrection. The time is come...
(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...
5._Even when we were dead in sin. _These words have the same emphasis as similar expressions in another Epistle. “For _when we were yet without strength, _in due time Christ died, for the ungodly. —...
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...
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS,.... Ephesians 2:1. HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST: which may be understood either of regeneration, when a soul that is dead in a moral or spiritual sense, is q...
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) Ver. 5. _Hath quickened, &c._] The very first stirrings in the womb of grace are precious to God; he b...
_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...
TOGETHER WITH CHRIST; as God raised Christ from the dead in behalf of his people and as their surety, so they, by virtue of their union with him, had been raised from spiritual death, which is the ple...
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS, HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST, (BY GRACE YE ARE SAVED,)...
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
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...
“EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD THROUGH OUR TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (BY GRACE HAVE YE BEEN SAVED)” “Even when we were dead”: Such love was demonstrated while we were yet sinners (Romans...
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...
HATH QUICKENED US; hath raised us up from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, not only in our justification, in which God frees us from our obnoxiousness to eternal death, and gives us a ri...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II it declares at once their life and ours. For "those who were dead in sins are quickened together with Christ,"[107] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Sed...
Ephesians 2:5 even G2532 we G2248 were G5607 (G5752) dead G3498 trespasses G3900 with G4806 (G5656) Christ...
‘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...
Ephesians 2:5. EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD BY (or, ‘on account of') OUR TRESPASSES. The word rendered ‘even' might mean ‘and,' but seems to have an intensive force here. ‘We' is to be taken in its widest s...
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,...
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD (κα οντας ημας νεκρους). Repeats the beginning of verse Ephesians 2:1, but he changes υμας (you Gentiles) to ημας (us Jews).QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (συνεζωοποιησεν...
DEAD Death (spiritual), Summary: Spiritual death is the state of the natural or unregenerate man as still in his sins. (Ephesians 2:1) alienated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18); (Ephesians 4:1...
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 2:1. _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...
HE BROUGHT US TO LIFE WITH CHRIST. "God acted in history at a time when the world was spiritually dead. God brought Jews and Gentiles to life with Christ by raising Him from the dead (Acts 13:32-33; 2...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:5 WHEN WE WERE DEAD. Paul resumes his original thought from v. Ephesians 2:1. MADE US ALIVE. Since unsaved
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
_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...
2 Corinthians 13:14; Acts 15:11; Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:8;...
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....
He hath quickened us together with Christ — In conformity to him, and by virtue of our union with him. By grace ye are saved — Grace is both the beginning and end. The apostle speaks indifferently eit...