Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 2:19
Therefore ye are no longer strangers, but citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem; no longer foreigners, but received into the very family of God.
Therefore ye are no longer strangers, but citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem; no longer foreigners, but received into the very family of God.
Verse 19. _YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS_] In this chapter the _Church_ of God is compared to a _city_, which, has a variety of privileges, rights, c., founded on regular _charters_ and _grants_. The _Gen...
NOW THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS - You are reckoned with the people of God. You are entitled to their privileges, and are not to be regarded as outcasts and aliens. The meaning is...
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 you are no longer strangers and foreigners resident in a land that is not their own, but you are fellow citizens with God's consecrated people and members of the family of God. It is on the fo...
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...
NOW THEREFORE. So then. NO MORE. no longer. Greek. _ouketi._ FOREIGNERS. sojourners. Greek. _paroikos._ See Acts 7:6. FELLOWCITIZENS. Greek. _sumpolites._ Only here. Whose seat of government (_polit...
_Now therefore ye_ He now turns direct to the Gentile believers, and rejoicingly recounts to them the actual grandeur of their privileges in grace. _no more_ as you once were. See on Ephesians 2:12 a...
ἌΡΑ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. See Voc., p. 136. ΞΈΝΟΙ ΚΑῚ ΠΆΡΟΙΚΟΙ. Cf. Hort on Biblical terms for Sojourning (1 Pet., pp. 154 ff.). ‘Strangers,’ as citizens of another city. ‘Sojourners,’ as only neighbours for a time...
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.
АРА (G686) следовательно. Это слово обозначает развитие темы и вводит следствие. Двойные частицы (άρα ΟΎΝ) в сочетании предполагают логическую связь, одна усиливает другую, и обе подводят итог целого...
DISCOURSE: 2102 THE EXALTED PRIVILEGES OF TRUE CHRISTIANS Ephesians 2:19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and a...
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS,— If there be any distinction between these two words, ξενοι and παροικοι, the latter signifies something more than the former, and seems plainly to allude to the case of _soj...
_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 People-One House...
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; NOW THEREFORE - `accordingly, then' [ ara (G686) oun (G3767)]. FOREIGNERS,...
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 _c._)_ Ephesians 2:19_ sum up the two-fold idea of this chapter — union of the Gentiles, with God and with God’s chosen people — in the metaphor of the One Temple, of which Jesus Christ is the chie...
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS. — Here the word rendered “stranger” means properly _an alien,_ or foreigner; while the word translated “foreigners” signifies the resident aliens of an ancient city, who were...
CHAPTER 11 GOD'S TEMPLE IN HUMANITY Ephesians 2:19 Now unfrequently it is the last word or phrase of the paragraph that gives us the clue to St. Paul's meaning and discloses the point at which he ha...
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...
ἄρα οὖν οὐκέτι ἐστὲ ξένοι καὶ πάροικο : _So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners_. At this point Paul brings to their conclusion the statements made in Ephesians 2:14-18, and draws from them t...
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...
(14) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (14) The conclusion: the Gentiles are taken into the fellowship of salvati...
You are no longer strangers with regard to God and his holy alliance. You are no longer travellers and vagabonds, without a God, as you were before your conversion; not knowing to whom you belonged, n...
(19) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (20) And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus...
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...
_LIFE REALISED IN FELLOWSHIP_ ‘Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow=citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.’ Ephesians 2:19 We maintain that the undenomi...
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...
19._Now therefore ye are no more strangers. _The Ephesians are now exclusively addressed. They were formerly _strangers from the covenants of promise, _but their condition was now changed. They were _...
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...
NOW THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS..... Alluding to the name נכרי, "a stranger", by which the Jews called the Gentiles; meaning that they were not now strangers to God, to the grace of God, the lo...
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; Ver. 19. _Fellow citizens with the saints_] Paul, as a citizen of Rome, escaped...
Eph. 2:19-22 Eph. 2:19-22. "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward, etc. - According to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, when he raised him from...
_Now, therefore_ Being thus reconciled; _ye_ Believing Gentiles; _are no more strangers and foreigners_ If it be necessary to make any distinction as to the signification of these two words, in the fo...
The Christians God's living temple:...
NOW, THEREFORE, YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD;...
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...
“SO THEN YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS, BUT YE ARE FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD” “So then”: “Paul begins his summing up---what is the result of Christ's achie...
19-22 The church is compared to a city, and every converted sinner is free of it. It is also compared to a house, and every converted sinner is one of the family; a servant, and a child in God's hous...
NOW THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS; such are they that may dwell in a city, but are not free of it. He means the same as EPHESIANS 3:12, they were not now _aliens from the commonwea...
Ephesians 2:19 Now G3767 therefore G686 are G2075 (G5748) longer G3765 strangers G3581 and G2532 foreigners G3941
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 2:19. SO THEN. A favorite phrase in the writings of the Apostle. It sums up and infers. YE ARE NO LONGER; in contrast with Ephesians 2:12, and in consequence of the saving facts detailed in...
SO THEN (αρα ουν). Two inferential particles (accordingly therefore).NO MORE (ουκετ). No longer.SOJOURNERS (παροικο). Old word for dweller by (near by, but not in). So Acts 7:6; Acts 7:29; 1 Pet...
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 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...
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...
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 THEN. "Being formed into _one people_ (Christ's church) along with the Jews, you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer! You share the covenants of promise and are members of the famil...
_Fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God._ THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS The Church at Ephesus was a mixed community of Jewish and Gentile converts. The old feuds between them had not...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:19 STRANGERS (also v. Ephesians 2:12) were foreigners with no rights or privileges (see...
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 2:19. SO THEN.—Inference of Ephesians 2:14. STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS.—By the latter word is meant those who temporarily abide in a place, but are without the...
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 John 3:1; Ephesians 2:12; Ephesians 3:15; Ephesians 3:6; Galati
Foreigners [π α ρ ο ι κ ο ι]. See on Luke 24:18. Rev., better, sojourners. Without rights of citizenship....
Our apostle began this chapter with setting before the Ephesians the horror and dread of the heathenish state before converted to Christianity: here he closes the chapter with an account of that glori...