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Eph 2:10. Αὐτοῦ, of Him) of God.-γὰρ, for) He proves, that salvation is by faith, not of works, and that faith itself is entirely of the gift of God.-ποίημα, workmanship) The word rarely occurs in this sense, and its force is increased by the κτισθέντες, created; comp. Eph 2:15, [“to make,” or “create, in Himself of twain one new man”], made spiritually out of nothing. We are elsewhere said to be regenerated. Nothing produces nothing. Believers of after ages are not only עם נולד, a people born, Ps. 22:32 (Psa 22:31), but also נברא, a people created, Psa 102:19 (Psa 102:18).-ἐπὶ) for the sake of good works; so that thenceforth at last we should devote ourselves to them.[24] On that ground, Paul never calls the works of the law good.-οἷς) ΟἿς-ἘΝ ΑὐΤΟῖς, אשר בהם, for ἘΝ ΟἿς, in which.-προητοίμασεν) The πρὸ ascribes the whole matter to God. ἡτοίμασεν is used as a neuter verb with great force, LXX., 2Ch 1:4, ὅτι ἡτοίμασεν αὐτῇ Δαυίδ, because David made preparation for it. So ὭΣΤΕ ἙΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΙ ΑὐΤῷ, so as to make ready for Him, Luk 9:52. God hath so prepared.[25] [Grace, therefore, with (as well as) salvation, precedes works.-V. g.]-περιπατήσωμεν, that we should walk) not, that we should be saved, or, we should live.
[24] Postea demum, i.e. After we have been created anew in Christ, and not till then.-ED.
[25] Thus Beng. does not take προητοίμασεν actively and governing α, implied in οἷς (attracted to ἔργοις): but intransitively, “Created unto good works, in which (οἷς-ἐν αὐτοῖς) God hath so prepared and ordered the matter, that we should walk.”-ED.