CHAPTER II. _The character of the Ephesians previously to their conversion_ _to Christianity_, 1-3. _By what virtue they were changed, and for what purpose_, 4-7. _They were saved by faith_, 8, 9....
AND YOU HATH HE QUICKENED - The words “hath he quickened,” or “made to live,” are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had e...
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...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
AND YOU. Even you. Resuming from Ephesians 1:19. HATH HE QUICKENED. Omit. The Ellipsis in Authorized Version and Revised Version supplied from Ephesians 2:5. DEAD. App-139. IN. by. No preposition....
Chapter Ephesians 2:1-10. Regeneration of the Ephesians, an Instance of Gratuitous Salvation 1. _And you_hath he quickened] The construction is broken, and the gap is filled by the inserted verb, infe...
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...
Ephesians 2:1. ΚΑῚ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ὌΝΤΑΣ ΝΕΚΡΟῪΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. The sentence is broken off to be resumed again, Ephesians 2:5, in a phrase καὶ ὄντας ἡμᾶς νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν, in which the Jews are put on the same...
ΌΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Сопутств._ или уступительное _part._, "хотя" ΠΑΡΆΠΤΩΜΑ (G3900) преступление (_см._ Ephesians 1:7). Здесь _dat._ может указывать на причину или область...
AND— This particle gives us the thread of St. Paul's discourse, which it is impossible to understand without seeing the train of it: without that view it would be like a rope of gold dust; all the par...
_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.
Our Prior ConditionSelf-aware, possessing personhood distinct from all other creatures.With moral reasoning, the capacity to assess right from wrong.Self-determinate, possessing freedom of choice and...
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; AND YOU - you also, among those who have experienced His mighty power in enabling them to believe (Ephesians 1:19). HATH HE QUICKE...
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...
AND YOU HATH HE QUICKENED. — _And you also._ St. Paul here begins the particular application to the Ephesians, which is the main subject of this chapter, broken off in Ephesians 2:3, and resumed in Ep...
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...
καὶ ὑμᾶς ὄντας νεκρούς : _and you, being dead_. The construction is broken, the writer turning off into two relative sentences (Ephesians 2:2-3) before he introduces his leading verb. His original sta...
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,...
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...
And (1) you [hath he quickened], who were (a) dead in (2) trespasses and sins; (1) He declares again the greatness of God's good will by comparing that miserable state in which we are born, with that...
He enlivened _you, when you were dead. These words, he enlivened or restored to life, are necessary to express the literal sense and construction, as appears from the following fifth verse. by what is...
(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...
CONTENTS The Church is reminded of her original State of Nature, in being quickened in Christ. The Apostle extols the Triumphs of Grace. The Chapter closeth, with showing Christ to be the Foundation...
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...
1._And you who were dead. _This is an ἐπεξεργασία of the former statements, that is, an exposition accompanied by an illustration. (118) To bring home more effectually to the Ephesians the general doc...
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 YOU HATH HE QUICKENED,.... The design of the apostle in this and some following verses, is to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and to set forth the sad estate and condition of man by nature,...
And you _hath he quickened_, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Ver. 1. _Who were dead_] Natural men are living carcases, walking sepulchres of themselves. In most families it is, as once it was i...
_And you_, &c. In the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the preceding chapter, the apostle had spoken of God's working in the believers at Ephesus, in order to their conversion, and resurrection from...
QUICKENED; made alive. DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS; it is a living death which the apostle describes. They were dead to God and holiness, and alive to this world and fleshly lust. They lived in tresp...
AND YOU HATH HE QUICKENED, WHO WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS;...
THE CHURCH AS THE SUM TOTAL OF MEN SAVED BY GRACE. The natural condition of man:...
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...
“AND YOU DID HE MAKE ALIVE, WHEN YE WERE DEAD THROUGH YOUR TRESPASSES AND SINS” “You”: This includes Christians from. Gentile background. in Ephesians 2:3 Paul will include Christians from. Jewish ba...
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...
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2 EPHESIANS 2:1 Paul setteth before the Ephesians their former corrupt heathen state, EPHESIANS 2:4 and God's rich mercy in their deliverance. EPHESIANS 2:8 We are saved by grace, no...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V we find Him, when he speaks of such as "were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein they had walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of t...
Ephesians 2:1 And G2532 you G5209 were G5607 (G5752) dead G3498 trespasses G3900 and G2532 sins G266...
‘And you (‘He has raised from the dead', or ‘He has made alive'), when you were dead through your trespasses and sins.' The ‘and you' may refer back to ‘raised Him from the dead and made Him to sit at...
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 2:1. YOU ALSO, or, ‘and you.' The latter simply joins this to what precedes; the former gives emphasis to ‘you.' There is, however, no contrast with other Christians, but an application of w...
AND YOU DID HE QUICKEN (κα υμας). The verb forDID HE QUICKEN does not occur till verse Ephesians 2:5 and then with ημας (us) instead of υμας (you). There is a like ellipsis or anacoluthon in Colos...
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 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;_ 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...
YOU WERE SPIRITUALLY DEAD. "In the past, even though you knew mysteries and secrets, you were spiritually dead in disobedience and sins....
_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 15:45; 1 John 3:14; 1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Corinthians 5:14;...
And you. Taking up the closing thought of the preceding chapter, the magnitude of God's power toward believers as exhibited in Christ's resurrection. He now shows that the same power is applied to his...
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....
And he hath quickened you — In Ephesians 1:19, St. Paul spoke of God's working in them by the same almighty power whereby he raised Christ from the dead. On the mention of this he, in the fulness of h...
How can a person believe if he or she is dead in sins? PROBLEM: The Bible repeatedly calls on the unbeliever to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and … be saved” (Acts 16:31). However, this passage d...
Observe here, 1. The deplorable condition which the Ephesians were in by nature, and all persons with them before their conversion from sin to God. It is. state of spiritual death; the natural and unr...