Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 2:16
In one body — One church. Having slain — By his own death on the cross. The enmity — Which had been between sinners and God.
In one body — One church. Having slain — By his own death on the cross. The enmity — Which had been between sinners and God.
Verse 16. _THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH - IN ONE BODY_] That the Jews and Gentiles, believing on the Lord Jesus, might lay aside all their causes of contention, and become one spiritual _body_, or _so...
AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD - This was another of the effects of the work of redemption, and indeed the main effect. It was not merely to make them harmonious, but it was that both, who...
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)...
RECONCILE. bring together again. Greek. _apokatallasso._ Only here and Colossians 1:20; Colossians 1:21. The intensive form, _katallasso_ with prefix _apo_ (App-104.), implies reinstatement. Here it r...
_reconcile both unto God_ The Gr. verb here rendered "reconcile" occurs elsewhere (in exactly the same form) only Colossians 1:20-21; but a form nearly identical occurs _e. g._Romans 5:10; 1 Corinthia...
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.
ΚΑῚ�. Cf. Colossians 1:22 ἀποκατήλλαξεν ἐν τῷ σώματι τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ διὰ τοῦ θανάτου. The difference between these passages should be noticed as well as the resemblance. In Col. the reference is to a...
ΆΠΟΚΑΤΑΛΛΆΞΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΠΟΚΑΤΑΛΆΣΣΩ (G604) изменять, обменивать, от вражды переходить к дружбе, примиряться. Двойное предложное сочетание может иметь усилительное значение (Abbott; Barth; V...
_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.)
Therefore, the Church may not be viewed as an advancement of Israel, for it is made up of an entirely new order of created mankind. The existence of the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Church, make...
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Translate, 'Might completely reconcile again both in one body (the Church, Ephesians 4:4; Coloss...
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 THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY. — In this verse the latter subject opens — the reconciliation of all to God. On the reconciliation of man to God, see the great passage 2 Corinth...
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...
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...
καὶ ἀποκαταλλάξῃ τοὺς ἀμφοτέρους : _and that He might reconcile them both_. Further statement of object, the καί continuing and extending it. Only at this point is the prior and larger idea of the rec...
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,...
Unity In Christ Jesus became a man so that the law of Moses with all its commands and ordinances could be put out of the way. This was done by causing it to cease being a law in force. Thus, where th...
And that he might reconcile both unto God in (o) one body by the cross, having (p) slain the enmity thereby: (o) He alludes to the sacrifices of the Law, which represented that true and only sacrific...
(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...
16._And that he might reconcile both. _The reconciliation between ourselves which has now been described is not the only advantage which we derive from Christ. We have been brought back into favor wit...
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 THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD,.... This is another end of the abrogation of the ceremonial law: the Jews had run up a long score against the ceremonial law, as well as against the moral la...
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Ver. 16. _In one body_] _Ubi igitur Separatistae?_ Therefore, where are the separatists? saith one...
_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_...
BOTH; both Jews and Gentiles. IN ONE BODY; in one spiritual body, namely, the Christian church. BY THE CROSS; by his bloody death on the cross as an expiation for sin. HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY; by a...
The reconciliation effected by Christ:...
AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THERE BY;...
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...
THEREBY: Or, in himself...
“AND MIGHT RECONCILE THEM BOTH IN ONE BODY UNTO GOD THROUGH THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THEREBY” “Reconcile”: To reconcile fully. “THEM BOTH”: “Might reconcile back to God, back to Him where bo...
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 THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD; another end of Christ's abolishing the ceremonial law, viz. that he might reconcile both Jew and Gentile (all the elect together) unto God: and in this respe...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V (even the God whom both races had offended-both Jew and Gentile), "in one body," says he, "having in it slain the enmity by the cross."[806]...
Ephesians 2:16 and G2532 reconcile G604 (G5661) both G297 God G2316 in G1722 one G1520 body G4983 through...
‘For he himself is our peace, who has made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that h...
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...
Ephesians 2:16. AND MIGHT RECONCILE THEM BOTH. Parallel with the clause, ‘that He might create,' etc. The compound verb here used occurs elsewhere only in Colossians 1:20-21. It may either be a streng...
AND MIGHT RECONCILE (κα αποκαταλλαξη). Final clause with ινα understood of first aorist active subjunctive of αποκαταλλασσω for which see Colossians 1:20; Colossians 1:22.THEM BOTH (τους αμφοτερο...
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;_ 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 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:_ These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, a...
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...
BY HIS DEATH. _Christ-on-the-cross_ (see note on 1 Corinthians 1:23). The Cross destroys the enmity between Jew and Gentile, and the enmity of the sinner toward God; unites both races into _one body_...
And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Cross, having slain the enmity thereby. RECONCILIATION 1. Our reconciliation itself. 2. The order of it. (1) Incorporate in Christ. (2...
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 Peter 4:1; 1 Peter 4:2; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21;...
Might reconcile [α π ο κ α τ α λ λ α ξ η]. Only here and Colossians 1:20, Ephesians 2:2 1See on Colossians 1:20. The new man precedes the reconciling in Paul's statement, though, as a fact, the order...
1. Our apostle had declared in the foregoing verses, that one end of Christ's death was, to make peace between Jew and Gentile; here he assures us,. second end was to make peace between God and man, t...