Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ephesians 2:21
In whom all the building (s) fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
(s) So that God is the workman not only of the foundation, but also of the whole building.
In whom all the building (s) fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
(s) So that God is the workman not only of the foundation, but also of the whole building.
EPHESIANS 2:21 pa/sa oivkodomh, {B} Although it is possible that, through itacism, h` was accidentally omitted before oivkodomh,, the anarthrous reading was preferred because of the weight of externa...
Verse 21. _IN WHOM_] By which foundation corner stone, Christ Jesus, _all the building_, composed of converted Jews and Gentiles, _fitly framed together_, συναρμολογουμενη, _properly jointed and_ _co...
IN WHOM - That is, “by” whom, or “upon” whom. It was in connection with him, or by being reared on him as a foundation. ALL THE BUILDING - The whole church of Christ. FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER - The word...
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...
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...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
ALL THE BUILDING. Every building (Greek. _oikodome)_. The texts omit "the". Compare 1 Corinthians 3:9. FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER. harmoniously fitted together. Greek. _sunarmologeo._ Only here and Ephesi...
_in whom_ In close and vital connexion with Whom. See last note. _all the building_ R. V., "_each several building;_" as if the great Temple were viewed for the moment in its multiplicity of porches,...
ἘΝ ὯΙ. Cf. 1 Peter 2:4 πρὸς ὃν προσερχόμενοι. The secret of harmonious growth is in the personal link which, however mediated, unites each part of the fabric with the chief Corner Stone. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜ...
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.
ΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΉ (G3619) строение, ΣΥΝΑΡΜΟΛΟΓΟΥΜΈΝΗ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΣΥΝΑΡΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G4883) подгонять. На стройке это слово обозначает весь процесс, в ходе которого камни подгоняются один к другому: обр...
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...
_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.)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: IN WHOM - as holding together the whole. ALL THE (SO A C; BUT B DELTA G 'ALEPH (') OMIT THE: 'EVERY') BUIL...
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...
2:21 [the] (a-4) I judge that the correct reading in the Greek is without the article. This construction directs the mind to all the component parts of the thing in question. So here the building is...
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....
ALL THE BUILDING] This is the right meaning: only one building is in the Apostle's mind, as the preceding vv. show. The RV'S accuracy is here misleading: cp. 'all' in Ephesians 1:8; Colossians 4:12....
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...
IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD. — There is some difficulty about the rendering-”all the building.” Generally the best MSS. omit the article in t...
(20-22) In these verses there is a sudden change from a political to a physical metaphor, possibly suggested by the word “household.” The metaphor itself, of the Church as “a building of God” — freque...
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...
ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα ἡ οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν Κυρίῳ : _in whom each several building_ (RV text; “every building,” RV marg.), _fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the L...
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,...
God's Temple The church is a building with individual Christians laid as its stones on the foundation of Christ (1 Peter 2:5). The apostles and prophets of the first century were the ones who proclaim...
(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...
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...
21._In whom all the building groweth. _If this be true, what will become of Peter? When Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, speaks of Christ as a “Foundation,” he does not mean that the church is beg...
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...
IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER,.... This building is to be understood of all the saints, and people of God; of the whole universal church, which is God's building; and is a building of...
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: Ver. 21. _Fitly framed together_] Or, perfectly joined together by the cement of the Holy Spirit, working in th...
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...
IN WHOM; not in Peter or Paul, but in Christ; in whom all true Christians believe, and on whom they rely for salvation. GROWETH; as a living temple made of living stones, 1 Peter 2:5....
IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING, FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER, GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD;...
The Christians God's living temple:...
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...
“IN WHOM EACH SEVERAL BUILDING, FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER, GROWETH INTO. HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD” “In whom”: In Christ. EACH SEVERAL BUILDING”: “The whole building” (NASV). “Every part of the building” (T...
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...
IN WHOM; or upon whom, viz. Christ the foundation. ALL THE BUILDING; whatsoever is built on Christ the foundation, and so all particular believers, as the several parts of the building. FITLY FRAMED T...
Epistle of Barnabas was to be manifested in flesh, and to sojourn among us. For, my brethren, the habitation of our heart is a holy temple to the Lord.[76]...
Ephesians 2:21 in G1722 whom G3739 the G3956 building G3619 together G4883 (G5746) grows G837 (G5719) into...
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...
EACH SEVERAL BUILDING (πασα οικοδομη). So without article Aleph B D G K L. Οικοδομη is a late word from οικος and δεμω, to build for building up (edification) as in Ephesians 4:29, then for the buil...
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...
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...
HE IS THE ONE. "As the cornerstone, Christ is the one who holds the whole building together by destroying the hostility between Jews and Gentiles. He makes it grow into a sacred temple (1 Corinthians...
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
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:21 All Christians everywhere are JOINED TOGETHER as God’s HOLY TEMPLE. Belonging to the visible church is not optional for followers of Christ....
_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 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Kings 6:7; 2 Corinthians 6:16;...
All the building [π α σ α ο ι κ ο δ ο μ η]. Lit., every building. Rev., each several building. But the reference is evidently to one building, and the rendering of A. V. should be retained though the...
On whom all the building fitly framed together — The whole fabric of the universal church rises up like a great pile of living materials. Into an holy temple in the Lord — Dedicated to Christ, and inh...