Ephesians 2:2 NLT,NIV,ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

Association with Christ. The concluding thought of the first chapter was the resurrection and exaltation of Christ. In order now to bring out how they were benefited thereby, he calls up to them their original condition . He shows them the pit out of which they have been dug, the rock out of which they have been hewn. In the first and second verses he has special reference to Gentile Christians, in the third verse he includes Jewish Christians in his description. I. GENTILE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

Gospel reformation great and gracious. "And you hath he quickened," etc. This passage, though its language is somewhat obscure, sets forth most manifestly the greatness and graciousness of gospel reformation . The gospel is a reformative system; it is revolutionary in its spirit and its aim. It uproots the noxious in life, and plants the wholesome. It pulls down the corrupt and builds up the holy. It burns up man's old moral heavens and creates new ones, "wherein dwelleth... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

Wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world. The idea of a dead creature walking is not altogether incongruous. It implies that a kind of life remained sufficient for walking; but not the true, full, normal life; rather the life of a galvanized corpse, or of one walking in sleep. The figurative use of walking for living, or carrying on our life, is frequent in this Epistle ( Ephesians 4:1 ; Ephesians 5:2 , etc.). "The course of this world," elsewhere" the world,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

The walk of the dead. The expression is very significant, "In which ye walked." Superstition tells us that the dead walk in the shades of night. This is mere folly. Yet, day by day, we are really surrounded by the dead—not by spirits of the (lead, walking their hour in the darkness of night, but by living men like ourselves, pursuing their courses of worldly activity with all their wonted energy and zeal, yet "dead while they live," and unconscious of their death. The term "walking"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

Three fatal guides in this walk. They are represented as the world, the flesh, and the devil. These are inextricably linked in the common death of men, for "the whole world lieth in the wicked one," and it includes, as its totality of possession, "the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life." There is no schism in this dread conspiracy against man's life. I. THE WORLD . Sinners walk "according to the course of this world." 1. The world is here to be... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:2

Wherein - In which sins, or in the practice of which transgressions.Ye walked - You lived, life being often compared to a journey or a race. note, Romans 6:4.According to the course of this world - In conformity with the customs and manners of the world at large. The word rendered here as “world” - αἰων aiōn - means properly “age,” but is often used to denote the present world, with its cares, temptations, and desires; and here denotes particularly the people of this world. The meaning is,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 2:1-2

Ephesians 2:1-2. And you, &c. In the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the preceding chapter, the apostle had spoken of God’s working in the believers at Ephesus, in order to their conversion, and resurrection from spiritual death to spiritual life, by the same almighty power whereby he raised Christ from the dead. On the mention of this he runs on, in the fulness of his heart, into a flow of thought concerning the glory of Christ’s exaltation, in the three following verses. He here... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

2:1-3:21 GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCHSinners saved by grace (2:1-10)In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. Nothing they do can bring them back to life, because no matter how much good they try to do, they are still sinners. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. In body and mind they are under the control of Satan, and consequently are rebellious against God (2:1-3). Such rebels do not deserve God’s love, but God loves them nevertheless. God does for sinners what... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:2

Wherein = In (Greek. en) which. in time past = once. the course ( aion ) of this world = the age of this world ( App-129 .) course . Greek. aio n. App-129 . prince = ruler, i.e. Satan. Compare 2 Corinthians 4:4 . Greek. archon. In this Epistle Paul uses the very terminology of the Gnostic teaching that the universe was ruled by AEONS, emanations of Deity. The archon here being the one who had dominion over the air, and the whole body of AEONS forming the pleroma (fulness) of the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 2:2

Wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.Walked according to the course of this world ... "This refers to the behavior which is characteristic of unregenerated people. Such persons do what people are... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 2:1-2

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 2:2

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