Were like them. "Even we Jews lived like this, slaves to our human natures, controlled by the Devil, doomed to suffer God's wrath!" Paul shows by this that the Law of Moses was not as effective as the circumcision party claimed. Also, he shows the Jewish Christians that they were just as dead in disobedience and sins in the past, and equally needed to be made alive by Christ! Compare Romans 3:9-20.
Verse Ephesians 2:3. _AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION_] _We_ JEWS, as well as you _Gentiles_, have lived in transgressions and sins; ανεστραφημεν, this was the _course_ of our _life_; we...
WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION - see the notes at 2 Corinthians 1:12; compare 1 Peter 4:3. IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH - Living to gratify the flesh, or the propensities of a corrupt nature. It is observab...
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...
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...
When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which you once walked, living life in the way this present age lives it, living life as the ruler of the power of the air d...
AMONG. Greek. _en_. App-104. ALSO WE... PAST. we also all once lived. CONVERSATION. See 2 Corinthians 1:12. LUSTS. Greek. _epithumia,_ strong desire. See Luke 22:15. Not necessarily evil desire, as...
_also we all_ Better WE ALSO ALL, the "also" emphasizing the "we." "_We all:_" all present Christians, whether Jews or heathens by origin. St Paul often insists on this _one level of fallen nature_, w...
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...
ἘΝ ΟἿΣ ΚΑῚ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ�. The Jews, in spite of their outward separation from the ‘sinners of the Gentiles’ (Galatians 2:15), were in heart one with them, cf. Romans 3:23. ἘΝ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ἘΠΙΘΥΜΊΑΙΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΣΑ...
ΆΝΕΣΤΡΆΦΗΜΕΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΆΝΑΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G390) вести образ жизни. Это слово указывает на общественную деятельность, в то время, как гл. ΠΕΡΙΕΠΑΤΉΣΑΤΕ в ст. 2 относится больше к личной жизни (Westc...
DISCOURSE: 2097 ORIGINAL SIN STATED, AND IMPROVED Ephesians 2:3. _And were by nature the children of wrath, even as others_. AMONG the many beautiful traits which mark the character of St. Paul, we c...
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE, &C.— The Apostle, changing the expression from _ye to we,_ seems plainly to declare, that he meant to include himself and all other Christians in what he here says. See Romans 3:9....
_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.
A great contrast...
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others....
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...
2:3 do, (e-25) Not 'the will of the flesh and the thoughts,' but 'the things willed.'...
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....
ALSO WE] 'we Jews were as dead in sins as you Gentiles, and were thus objects of God's wrath' (Ephesians 5:6). HAD OUR CONVERSATION] RV 'lived.'...
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...
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL... — Up to this point St. Paul had addressed himself especially to the Ephesians as Gentiles: now he extends the description of alienation to “all,” Jews and Gentiles alike, as...
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...
ἐν οἷς καὶ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἀνεστράφημέν ποτε : _among whom also we all had our life and walk aforetime_. The AV gives “also we all”; Tynd., Cov., Gen., “we also had”; Bish., “we all had”; RV, “we also al...
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,...
The Condition of the Lost At the close of chapter 1, Paul told at least three ways God's power could be seen in Jesus. Through the same power he has made alive those who were spiritually dead, or sepa...
(6) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our (d) flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and (7) were by nature the (e) children of wrath, even...
_Among whom, &c. St. Jerome (p. 3) refers it to trespasses or sins. --- Were by nature; not by nature according to the state of man's first creation in paradise, but by nature infected with original s...
(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...
3._Among whom also we all had our conversation. _Lest it should be supposed that what he had now said was a slanderous reproach against the former character of the Ephesians, or that Jewish pride had...
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...
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST,.... What the apostle says of the Gentile Ephesians before conversion, he says of himself and other Jews; and this he does, partly to show tha...
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Ver...
_Among whom also we_ Jews, as well as you Gentiles; _had our conversation_ That is, our course of life; _in times past_ At least in some degree, whatever our education or religious profession might ha...
AMONG WHOM; namely, among which children of disobedience. WE ALL; Jews and Gentiles. HAD OUR CONVERSATION; lived. DESIRES OF THE FLESH; bodily appetites and passions. OF THE MIND; such as pride, e...
THE CHURCH AS THE SUM TOTAL OF MEN SAVED BY GRACE. The natural condition of man:...
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS. This...
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...
THE DESIRES: _ Gr._ the wills...
“among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest” “AMONG WHOM WE ALSO”: “We all lived...
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...
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL; we apostles and believers of the Jews. Either Paul by a _coenosis_ reckons himself among them, though not guilty with them; or rather, though he were not an idolater as the Eph...
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen "For we also were once children of wrath, even as others; but God, being rich in mercy, for the great love wherewith He loved us, when we were now dead...
Ephesians 2:3 among G1722 whom G3739 also G2532 we G2249 all G3956 once G4218 conducted G390 (G5648) in...
‘Among whom we also once lived in the lusts of the flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.' ‘We.' Lest anyone think he is excludi...
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,...
Ephesians 2:3. AMONG WHOM, _i.e.,_ ‘the sons of disobedience,' not ‘among which,' referring to ‘trespasses' (Ephesians 2:1). WE ALSO ALL, etc. ‘Also,' or ‘even,' is to be connected with ‘we all,' but...
WE ALSO ALL (κα ημεις παντες). We Jews.ONCE LIVED (ανεστραφημεν ποτε). Second aorist passive indicative of αναστρεφω, old verb, to turn back and forth, to live (2 Corinthians 1:12). Cf. ποτε περι...
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, 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,_ 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;_ 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:_ 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...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:3 The sons and daughters of Adam have been born into a fallen state (BY NATURE). They have earned God’s condemnation as CHILDREN OF WRATH. Compare...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 2:1. AND YOU DID HE QUICKEN.—The italics in A.V. and R.V. show a broken construction of St. Paul’s meaning, the verb being supplied from Ephesians 2:5, where...
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 4:7; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:16; 1
Had our conversation [α ν ε σ τ ρ α φ η μ ε ν]. See on the kindred noun conversation, 1 Peter 1:15. Rev., more simply, lived. Fulfilling [π ο ι ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Rev., doing. The verb implies carrying out...
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....
Among whom we — Jews. Also, formerly had our conversation: doing the will of the flesh — In gross, brutal sins. And of the mind — By spiritual, diabolical wickedness. In the former clause, flesh denot...
Our apostle in these words is supposed to set forth the condition of the Jews by nature, as he had done before of the Gentiles; and that he declares, that even they had their conversation amongst the...