Matthew Poole Commentary - Ephesians 2:2 - 2:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ephesians 2:2 - 2:2


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Wherein in time past ye walked; conversed in a continual course of life. They were alive to sin, when dead in sin; or by sin dead to spiritual good.



According to the course of this world; either according to the age of the world that then was, or men then in the world, or according to the custom and mode, the shape and fashion, of the world. The same word here translated course is rendered world, Rom_12:2:



Be not conformed (configured or fashioned) to this world, i.e. to the ways and manners of it. So here,



according to the course, is, according to the ways of men in the world, both in manners and religion.



According to the prince; the devil, or, as Mat_12:24,26, the prince of devils.



Of the power; power for powers, as they are called, Eph_6:12: those devils, or powers of darkness, are marshalled under him as their prince, who sets up a kingdom to himself in opposition to Christ.



Of the air; that are in the air, this lower region, (by God’s permission), that they may be ready and at hand to tempt men, and do mischief in the world. Or, that work so many effects in the air, raise storms and tempests, &c., as in the case of Job and his children.



The spirit that now; even at this time, since the coming of the gospel, still continues to work.



Worketh in; effectually works in; rules, and governs, and acts them, 2Ti_2:26.



The children of disobedience, by a Hebraism; they that are addicted to disobedience, i.e. obstinate sinners.