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Eph 2:5. Καὶ, even) This is connected with you, when you were, Eph 2:1.-ἡμᾶς, us) both, Jews and Gentiles.-συνεζωοποίησε τῷ Χριστῷ· χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι, hath quickened together with Christ; by grace ye are saved) Quickening precedes the “raising up” [Eph 2:6], and ch. Eph 1:20; the raising up presupposes life. We were made alive at the time when Christ was made alive; comp. 2Co 5:15, concerning the death of Christ, and so of the other steps. But when faith is received, all those things are applied to man by God, and they are considered as ratified by man. The apostle, enumerating this very order of salvation, shows that grace is the beginning and the end [proram et puppim] in this and in the eighth verse, and sometimes he uses indiscriminately the first and second person, on account of the equal footing of the Jews and Gentiles.-τῷ Χριστῷ, together with Christ) Hence He is the fountain-head, Eph 2:6-10.