Ephesians 2:2 NLT,NIV,ESV

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

What Grace Has Done Ephesians 2:1-10 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture. The death of the spirit is compatible with much active interest in the course of this world. Behind the shifting scenes of the material is the great enemy of souls. As the Spirit of God works in the obedient, so does the evil spirit work in the disobedient. Note this trinity of evil-the course of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:1-22

The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God, who is rich in mercy, finds the material for His building. The process is that in Christ Jesus those found are made alive, are raised up, and made to sit with Him. The purpose for which the building is created is then distinctly told in the words, "That in the ages to come He might show the... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-12

Grace in Operation Ephesians 2:1-12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our sins. Six things are stated. The chapter follows with a threefold consideration of what grace does for us, when it quickens, raises, and causes us to sit with Christ in the Heavenly places. The third thing is the revealing of God's mercy, love and grace, as it becomes effective toward us in Christ... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:2

SATAN AND HIS WORK‘The prince of the power of the air.’ Ephesians 2:2 The New Testament, as it reveals Christ, so also it reveals the Devil. The New Testament depicts Christ’s life as one protracted contest with the Evil One. It was as the Devil’s vanquisher that He became man’s Saviour. We see this throughout.The Devil is a reality. The text gives Satan’s title. The Prince of the Power of the Air. The very title is a revelation in itself. Take it word by word: Prince—Power—Air. I.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10

Paul Prays That Their Eyes May Be Opened to the Richness of What Christ Has Brought Them and Has Done For Them (1:15-2:10). Having declared what God has done for us in the overall plan of redemption Paul now reveals in more depth the work He has done within us and for us through His activity in Christ. He begins by praying that we may be given understanding so that we may grasp it, then he outlines the full glory of the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus Christ, and then he shows how those... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:2

‘Wherein previously you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.’ They had been guilty at three levels. They were guilty of personal sin (‘your trespasses and sins’), they were not dupes but rebels; they were guilty of following the dictates of the world (‘the course of this world’), allowing themselves to be carried along either unthinkingly or deliberately in the stream of humanity;... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10

Ephesians 2:1-2 Samuel : . Christians are Raised and Exalted in the Risen and Exalted Christ by God’ s Free Grace and Gift.— The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and trespasses in which they formerly “ walked” in accordance with the course of the existing world-order, as subjects of the ruler who has power over the air and over the spirit operating in disobedient hearts ( Ephesians 2:1 f.); the writer in like manner, and those for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:2

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, Romans 12:2; Be not conformed (configured or fashioned) to this world, i.e. to the ways and manners... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-3

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 2:1. And you did He quicken.—The italics in A.V. and R.V. show a broken construction of St. Paul’s meaning, the verb being supplied from Ephesians 2:5, where the broken thread is taken up again. Dead in trespasses and sins.—“Dead through,” etc. (R.V.). “What did they die of?” it might be asked; and the apostle answers, “Of trespasses and sins” (so Alford). “The word for trespasses is one of a mournfully numerous group of words” (Trench). It has sometimes... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Ephesians 2:2

world kosmos = world-system. Colossians 2:20; John 7:7. (See Scofield "John 7:7- :") . read more