Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ephesians 2:5
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5. dead in sins —The best reading is in the Greek, "dead in our (literally, ' the ') trespasses. " quickened —"vivified" spiritually, and consequences hereafter, corporally. There must be a spiritual resurrection of the soul before there can be a comfortable resurrection of the body [PEARSON] ( John 11:25 ; John 11:26 ; Romans 8:11 ). together with Christ —The Head being seated at God's right hand, the body also sits there with Him [CHRYSOSTOM]. We are already seated there IN Him ("in Christ Jesus," Romans 8:11- : ), and hereafter shall be seated by Him; IN Him already as in our Head, which is the ground of our hope; by Him hereafter, as by the conferring cause, when hope shall be swallowed up in fruition [PEARSON]. What God wrought in Christ, He wrought (by the very fact) in all united to Christ, and one with Him. by grace ye are saved — Greek, "Ye are in a saved state." Not merely "ye are being saved," but ye "are passed from death unto life" ( Romans 8:11- : ). Salvation is to the Christian not a thing to be waited for hereafter, but already realized ( Romans 8:11- : ). The parenthetic introduction of this clause here (compare Ephesians 2:8 ) is a burst of Paul's feeling, and in order to make the Ephesians feel that grace from first to last is the sole source of salvation; hence, too, he says "ye," not "we." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"
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