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And you, being dead in your sins: he further shows they had no need of circumcision in the flesh, Eph_2:11, having all in Christ for justification as well as sanctification, though they (as well as the Ephesians, see Eph_2:1,5) were by nature spiritually dead in sins, deprived of the life of grace, and separated from the life of glory.
And the uncircumcision of your flesh; and having the foreskin of their flesh in paganism; which was true literally, but, considering the internal circumcision, Col_2:11, the apostle’s expression here is to be expounded of the internal corruption of our nature, the uncircumcised heart, original corruption derived unto all by carnal propagation, which is predominant in the unregenerate. These being dead as to the life of grace, Mat_8:22 Joh_5:25 Rom_8:7 1Co_2:14 1Ti_5:6.
Hath he quickened together with him; you who were strangers from the life of God, Eph_4:18, hath he now quickened or revived to a spiritual life with him here, and hereafter to eternal life, 1Co_15:22.
Having forgiven you all trespasses; having freely pardoned to you (the word noting a free affection to give and forgive, 2Co_2:10 Eph_4:32) all your sins, after as well as before baptism, which is the sign and seal of it, Psa_103:3; so that the Spirit of Christ doth not only infuse a principle of grace, and implant a living and abiding seed to work out vicious habits, but God, upon the account of Christ’s plenary satisfaction, doth freely remove all the guilt that binds over to eternal death, and doth not impute to believers any of their sins in whole or in part, but treateth them as if they had committed none at all, Mat_26:28 Act_10:43 Eph_1:7 Heb_9:15, and will remember them no more, so that when they are sought for they shall not be found, Jer_31:34 50:20 Heb_10:17. What the papists say of the fault being remitted, when the punishment may be exacted either in whole or in part, that they may have a pretence for human satisfactions, (the groundlessness of which was hinted, Col_1:24), is a mere figment of the schools, against Scripture and reason.