Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) DEAD IN SINS - `dead in our [ tois (G3588), the] trespasses.' QUICKENED - `vivified' spiritually; by consequence, hereafter, corporally. There must be a spiritual resurrection of the soul before there can be a comfortable resurrection of the body (Pearson) (John 11:25; Romans 8:11). TOGETHER WITH CHRIST. The Head being seated at God's right hand, the body also sits there with Him (Chrysostom). We are already seated there IN Him ("in Christ Jesus," Ephesians 2:6...

5._Even when we were dead in sin. _These words have the same emphasis as similar expressions in another Epistle. “For _when we were yet without strength, _in due time Christ died, for the ungodly. — But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, _while we were yet sinners, _Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6.) Whether the words, _by grace ye are saved, _have been inserted by another hand, I know not; but, as they are perfectly agreeable to the context, I am quite willing to receive them as written by Paul. They show us that he always feels as if he had not sufficiently proclaimed the riches of Divine grace, and accordingly expresses, by a variety of terms, the same truth, that everything connected with our salvation ought to be ascribed to God as its author. And certainly he who duly weighs the ingratitude o

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, and has left nothing but the ruins of a man. But if we viewed things aright, we should be far more affected by the thought of a dead soul, a lost, fallen spirit. A state of sin is a state of conformity to this world. Wicked men are slaves to Satan. Satan is the author of that proud, carnal disposition which there is in ungodly men; he rules in the hearts of men. From Scripture it is clear, that whether men have been most prone to sensual or to spiritual wickedness, all men, being naturally children of disobedience, are also by nature children of wrath. What reason have sinners, then, to seek earnestly for that grace which will make them, of children of wrath, children of God and heirs of glory...

Verse Ephesians 2:5. _EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS_] Dead in our souls; dead towards God; dead in law; and exposed to death eternal, _HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST_] God has given us as complete a _resurrection_ from the _death of sin_ to a _life of_ _righteousness_, as the body of Christ has had from the grave. And as this _quickening_, or _making alive_, was most gratuitous on God's part, the apostle, with great propriety, says; _By grace ye are_ _saved_....

EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS - notes, Ephesians 2:1; compare Romans 5:8. The construction here is, “God, who is rich in mercy, on account of the great love which he bare unto us, even being dead in sin, hath quickened us,” etc. It does not mean that he quickened us when we were dead in sin, but that he loved us then, and made provision for our salvation. It was love to the children of wrath; love to those who had no love to return to him; love to the alienated and the lost. That is true love - the sincerest and the purest benevolence - love, not like that of people, but such only as God bestows. Man loves his friend, his benefactor, his kindred - God loves his foes, and seeks to do them good. HATH QUICKENED US - Hath made us alive see...

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. Chaos (Genesis 1:1). 2. The dawn—the Spirit of God moving on the face of the waters (Genesis 1:4). 3. The work of creation—in successive stages (Genesis 1:4-1)....

EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS,.... Ephesians 2:1. HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST: which may be understood either of regeneration, when a soul that is dead in a moral or spiritual sense, is quickened and made alive; a principle of life is infused, and acts of life are put forth; such have their spiritual senses, and these in exercise; they can feel the load and weight of sin; see their lost state and condition, the odiousness of sin, and the beauty of a Saviour, the insufficiency of their own righteousness, and the fulness and suitableness of Christ's; breathe after divine and spiritual things; speak in prayer to God, and the language of Canaan to fellow Christians; move towards Christ, exercise grace on him, act for him, and walk on in him: and this life they have not from themselves, for previous to it they are dead, and in this quickening work are entirely pass

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 hole of the pit whence ye were digged: «You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:2. _Wherein in time past ye walked_ With a terrible activity of spiritual death; Ephesians 2:2. According to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

DEAD Death (spiritual), Summary: Spiritual death is the state of the natural or unregenerate man as still in his sins. (Ephesians 2:1) alienated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18); (Ephesians 4:19) and destitute of the Spirit. Prolonged beyond the death of the body, spiritual death is a state of eternal separation from God in conscious suffering. This is called "the second death."; (Revelation 2:11); (Revelation 20:6); (R

EPHESIANS 2:5 tw|/ Cristw|/ {B} The reading evn tw|/ Cristw|/ (î46 B 33 _al_) seems to have arisen from either accidental dittography of the previous &en, or from deliberate assimilation to evn Cristw|/ VIhsou/ in ver. Ephesians 2:6....