Ephesians 2:1-2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:1

And you hath he quickened - The words “hath he quickened,” or “made to live,” are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had evinced toward the people Ephesians 1:19; and to show that this was put forth in connection with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and his exaltation to the right hand of God in heaven; see the notes at Romans 6:4-11; compare Colossians 2:12-13; Colossians 3:1. The words “hath he quickened” mean,... 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 2:1

And you = Even you. Resuming from Ephesians 1:19 . hath He quickened . Omit. The Ellipsis in Authorized Version and Revised Version supplied from Ephesians 2:5 . dead . App-139 . in = by. No preposition. Dative case. trespasses . App-128 . The texts prefix "your". sins . App-128 . 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 2:1

EPH. 2Paul's theme in this chapter continues to be the glorious blessings of the saved "in Christ," as contrasted with their former state of being without any hope whatever. Those who were once "dead in sins" are now alive in Christ (Ephesians 2:1-10); and those who were once "aliens and strangers separated from God" are now members of God's family (Ephesians 2:11-22).And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. (Ephesians 2:1)"To be dead in trespasses and sins... 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:1

Ephesians 2:1. And— This particle gives us the thread of St. Paul's discourse, which it is impossible to understand without seeing the train of it: without that view it would be like a rope of gold dust; all the parts would be excellent, and of value, butwould seem heaped together without order or connection. This and here, it is true, ties the parts together, and points out the connection and coherence of St. Paul's discourse; but yet it stands so far from the verb set, in Ephesians 2:20, of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:2

Ephesians 2:2. Wherein in time past ye walked— The Ephesians were remarkable, in the midst of all their learning, for a most abandoned character. They banished Hermodorus merely for his virtue; thereby in effect making a law, that every modest and temperate man should leave them. The word αιων, rendered world, may be observed in the New Testament to signify the lasting state and constitution of things in the great tribes or collections of men, considered in reference to the kingdom of God;... read more

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