NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Ephesians 2:4
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians
yourselves with meekness, become the imitators of His sufferings, and of His love, wherewith[55]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians
yourselves with meekness, become the imitators of His sufferings, and of His love, wherewith[55]
Verse Ephesians 2:4. _BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY_] As they were _corrupt_ in their _nature_, and _sinful_ in their _practice_, they could possess no _merit_, nor have any _claim_ upon God; and it r...
BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY - On the use of the word “rich” by Paul, see the notes at Ephesians 1:7. It is a beautiful expression. “God is ‘rich’ in mercy;” overflowing, abundant. Mercy is the riche...
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...
GOD. App-98. WHO IS. being. MERCY. Compare Romans 9:23. FOR. on account of. App-104.Ephesians 2:2. LOVE, LOVED. App-135....
_But God_ The Divine counter-fact now comes in, brighter for the awful contrast. _who is rich in mercy_ See note on "riches," Ephesians 1:18. The _ultimate motive_of the work of regeneration is here g...
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...
ΠΛΟΎΣΙΟΣ. See note on τὸ πλοῦτος, Ephesians 1:7. ἘΝ ἘΛΈΕΙ. Cf. Romans 15:9; Titus 3:5; Luke 1:78; and esp....
ΠΛΟΎΣΙΟΣ (G4145) богатый (_см._ Ephesians 1:7). ών _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510). Причинное _part._, "потому что он богат милостью" ΈΛΈΕΙ _dat. от_ ΈΛΕΟΣ (G1656) милость, сочувствие, сострадани...
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...
BUT GOD,— This connects the present verse admirably well with that immediatelypreceding,andmakesthepartsofthat incidental discourse cohere; which ending in this verse, St. Paul, in the beginning of Ep...
_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.
By grace, we have been claimed as God's own....
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, BUT. Consolatory contrast to the universality of men's natural heritage of "wrath." GOD, WHO IS RICH - Greek, '(as) being...
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...
RICH IN MERCY. — Not only merciful, but rich “in the multitude of mercy,” as attaching even to those dead in sin (see Chrysostom on this passage). The idea of richness in grace, glory, mercy, is espec...
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...
ὁ δὲ Θεὸς, πλούσιος ὢν ἐν ἐλέει : _but God_ (or, God, however), _being rich in mercy_. A return is now made to the statement which was interrupted at Ephesians 2:2. The resumption might have been made...
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...
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...
(8) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, (8) Now from this follows another member of the comparison declaring our excellency, that is, that by the power of Christ w...
_But God....hath raised up together, both Gentiles and Jews, to life in Christ, remitting our sins by faith in him, and by the grace of our merciful Redeemer, by his pure mercy, not by any works of ou...
(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...
4._But God, who is rich in mercy. _(122) Now follows the second member of the sentence, the substance of which is, that God had delivered the Ephesians from the destruction to which they were formerly...
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...
BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY,.... Mercy is a perfection of the divine nature, and is essential to God; and may be considered with respect to the objects of it, either as general, extending to all men...
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Ver. 4. _But God, who is rich in mercy_] Such a mercy as rejoiceth against judgment, as a man against his adversary which he h...
_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...
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, FOR HIS GREAT LOVE WHERE WITH HE LOVED US,...
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...
“BUT GOD, BEING RICH IN MERCY, FOR HIS GREAT LOVE WHEREWITH HE LOVED US” “But God”: God took the initiative. Many people remain optimistic that man can deliver himself.. common belief is that mankind...
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...
RICH IN MERCY; abundant. Riches of mercy here, as riches of grace, EPHESIANS 1:7; see PSALMS 51:1, PSALMS 86:5. FOR HIS GREAT LOVE; the fountain from whence his mercies vouchsafed to us proceed; riche...
Ephesians 2:4 But G1161 God G2316 is G5607 (G5752) rich G4145 in G1722 mercy G1656 because G1223 His...
‘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 2:4. BUT GOD. ‘But' resumes the main thought, yet not without an implied antithesis between those described in Ephesians 2:1-3, and ‘God.' BEING RICH IN MERCY, ‘Being as He is,' not = ‘who...
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,...
BUT GOD (ο δε θεος). Change in the structure of the sentence here, resuming verse Ephesians 2:1 after the break.BEING RICH IN MERCY (πλουσιος ων εν ελεε). More than ελεημων (being merciful).WHERE...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
BUT GOD'S MERCY. This tragic and helpless situation of man, _sets the stage_ for God to reveal his mercy and his love to _both_ Jew and Gentile!!!...
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...
1 John 4:10; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Timothy 1:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;...
But God. Resuming ver. 1. For His great love [δ ι α]. For the sake of, in order to satisfy His love. Quickened us together. Spiritually. Compare Colossians 2:13; Romans 6:11-14; Romans 8:10;...
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....
Mercy removes misery: love confers salvation....
St. Paul having set forth that miserable state, which both Jews and Gentiles were in by nature, namely, DEAD IN SINS, and CHILDREN OF WRATH; he doth next set forth their deliverance from that woeful e...