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Eph 2:1. Καὶ ὑμᾶς, and you) This is very closely connected with He wrought in ch. Eph 1:20. You is construed with hath quickened together (συνεζωοποίησεν), Eph 2:5.-ὑμᾶς ὄντας, you when you were) as there is found when we were, in Eph 2:5. The former word, in both cases respectively, is emphatic;[19] as Php 2:7, note.-νεκροὺς, dead) What can be more wretched?-τοῖς παραπτώμασι) Although the genuine ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις intervenes, we must refer to the παραπτώμασι the neuter οἷς, in which, Eph 2:3 : comp. [τοῖς διωγμοῖς, τοῖς παθήμασιν] οἷς, οἵους [διωγμούς], 2Ti 3:11, where the gender is in like manner twofold.-ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, in sins) Refer to this word αἷς, in which, Eph 2:2. Αἱ ἁμαρτίαι, sins, are chiefly applied to the Gentiles, who are ignorant of God: τὰ παραπτώματα, trespasses, to the Jews, who have the law,[20] and yet revolt from the light; Eph 2:5. Moreover the latter obeyed the flesh; the former, the prince of the power of the air; see following verses.
[19] In Eph 2:1, ὑμᾶς precedes ὄντας, and is therefore the emphatic word. In Eph 2:5, ὄντας precedes ἡμᾶς, and therefore the emphasis falls on the ὄντας.-ED.
[20] παραπτωμα, from παραπίπτω, I fall away from the law, I transgress. For “sin is the transgression of the law.”-ED.