Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ephesians 2:18
For (q) through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
(q) Christ is the gate as it were, by whom we come to the Father, and the Holy Spirit is as it were, our guiding man who leads us.
For (q) through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
(q) Christ is the gate as it were, by whom we come to the Father, and the Holy Spirit is as it were, our guiding man who leads us.
Verse 18. _FOR THROUGH HIM_] Christ Jesus, _we both_-Jews and Gentiles, _have access by one Spirit_-through the influence of the Holy Ghost, _unto the Father_-God Almighty. This text is a plain proof...
FOR THROUGH HIM - That is, he has secured this result that we have access to God. This he did by his death - reconciling us to God by the doctrines which he taught - acquainting us with God; and by hi...
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...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
ACCESS. the access. Greek. _. prosagoge._ Occ Ephesians 3:12. See Romans 5:2. SPIRIT. App-101. FATHER. App-98....
_for_ It is possible to render "_that_," and so to make this the substance of the message of "peace." The difference is not important. But it is grammatically better to retain A. V. (and R. V.). _bot...
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.
ὍΤΙ ΔΙʼ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ Κ.Τ.Λ. This clause explains ‘the way of peace.’ The Father is the source of peace (cf. Ephesians 1:2). Peace is to be enjoyed only in communion with Him. Through Christ we have obtaine...
ΔΙ' ΑΎΤΟΫ́ через Него, ΈΧΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, обладать. _Praes._ указывает на длительное обладание. ΠΡΟΣΑΓΩΓΉ (G4318) вход, доступ. Имеется в виду почетное право приблизитьс...
DISCOURSE: 2101 ACCESS TO GOD BY THE PRIESTHOOD Ephesians 2:18. _Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father_. AS there is no question more important, so there is none more beyond t...
WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT— The word προσαγωγη, which we render _access,_ properly refers to the custom of introducing persons into the presence of some prince, or any other greatly their super...
_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 Spirit...
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Translate, 'For it is through Him (John 14:6; Hebrews 10:19) that we have our access (Romans 5:2;...
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...
FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. — In this verse the two meanings again unite. In the original the order is emphatic: “Through Him we have the access, both of us in o...
(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...
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...
ὅτι διʼ αὐτοῦ ἔχομεν τὴν προσαγωγὴν οἱ ἀμφότεροι ἐν ἑνὶ πνεύματι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα : _for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father_. Some take ὅτι as = _that_, the mention of th...
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...
(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...
18._For through him we both have access. _This is an argument from the fact, that we are permitted to draw near to God. But it may be viewed also as an announcement of peace; for wicked men, lulled in...
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...
FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE AN ACCESS, That is, both Jews and Gentiles; the Arabic version reads, "we both factions": being made one, and reconciled unto God, and having the Gospel of peace preached...
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Ver. 18. _We both have an access_] With good assurance of success. The Persian kings held it a piece of their silly glory to hold of...
_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_...
Peace with God, peace with conscience, and peace with one another, are the fruit of faith in Christ. By his Spirit he produces in those who believe on him a filial temper, gives them access to God as...
FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. The thought of the passage is that God, by the redemption of Christ, has gathered His Church out of Jews and Gentiles. So far as the...
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...
“for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father” “THROUGH HIM”: Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:1
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...
FOR THROUGH HIM, as our Mediator and Peace-maker, who hath reconciled us to God, WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS, are admitted or introduced, BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER; by the Holy Ghost, who is our Guide to...
Ephesians 2:18 For G3754 through G1223 Him G846 we G2192 both G297 have G2192 (G5719) access G4318 by...
Ephesians 2:18. FOR THROUGH HIM. The truth of Ephesians 2:17 is proven from the effect of Christ's thus coming and preaching peace. ‘Through Him,' which is more than ‘through His blood,' is the emphat...
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...
THROUGH HIM (δι' αυτου). Christ.WE BOTH (ο αμφοτερο). "We the both" (Jew and Gentile).OUR ACCESS (την προσαγωγην). The approach, the introduction as in Romans 5:2.IN ONE SPIRIT (εν εν πνευματ...
Ephesians 2:18 In this text we have a declaration of the Holy Trinity; there can be no doubt about that. Here are all Three Persons together: the Father, unto whom we have access or introduction; the...
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,_ 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:_ 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...
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...
THAT ALL OF US. To see the _king,_ you had to be introduced by someone close to him. Paul is using this symbolism to say that it is _only through_ Christ that any of us can _be introduced_ to God and...
_For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father._ THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, which the apostle implies in these words, is the centre of a group o...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2;...
Access [π ρ ο σ α γ ω γ η ν]. See on Romans 5:2. Notice the three persons of the Godhead : through Him (Christ); one Spirit, the Father....
For through him, we both — Jews and gentiles. Have access — Liberty of approaching, by the guidance and aid of one Spirit to God as our Father. Christ, the Spirit, and the Father, the three — one God,...