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EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2
Eph_2:1-3 Paul setteth before the Ephesians their former
corrupt heathen state,
Eph_2:4-7 and God’s rich mercy in their deliverance.
Eph_2:8-10 We are saved by grace, not of works, yet so as to be
created in Christ unto good works.
Eph_2:11-18 They who were once strangers, and far from God, are
now brought near by Christ’s blood; who having
abolished the ritual law, the ground of distinction
between Jew and Gentile, hath united both in one
body, and gained them equal access to the Father.
Eph_2:19-22 So that the Gentiles are henceforth equally privileged
with the Jews, and together with them constitute a holy
temple for the habitation of God’s Spirit.
And you hath he quickened; his verb quickened is not in the Greek, but the defect of it may be supplied from Eph_1:19, thus: The greatness of his power to us-ward, and to you that were dead in trespasses and sins; the remaining part of that chapter being included in a parenthesis, which, though long, yet is not unusual. Or rather, as our translators and others do, from Eph_2:5 of this chapter, where we have the word quickened. It imports a restoring of spiritual life by the infusion of a vital principle, (in the work of regeneration), whereby men are enabled to walk with God in newness of life.
Who were dead; piritually, not naturally; i.e. destitute of a principle of spiritual life, and so of any ability for, or disposedness to, the operations and motions of such a life.
In trespasses and sins:he preposition in is wanting in the Greek by an ellipsis, but the expression is full, Col_2:13; this dative case therefore is to be taken in the sense of the ablative. By these words he means either all sorts of sins, habitual and actual, less or greater; or rather, promiscuously and indifferently, the same thing several ways. expressed. Sin is the cause of spiritual death; where sin reigns, there is a privation of spiritual life.