Efésios 2
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Efésios 2:2
He indicates that the prince of power, that is, the devil, has corrupted the understanding of the world to make it depart from the one God and conceive a belief in many gods. In this way the devil made them associates in his own conspiracy, seeing that they were found to exhibit the same impiety in their denial of the one God. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.2.1-3
Efésios 2:3
He is speaking of a great deception when he brings to mind the "passions of the flesh." For the pleasure of the flesh means being delighted by the visible, so that it gives the name of gods to the elements that God appointed as his means of ordering the world. But this name [God] belongs rightly to the one and only God, from whom everything derives.… If anyone imagines that the "passions of the flesh" mean anything else, let him reflect on how the apostle led a pure life. He lived without blemish according to the righteousness of the law. But because he had persecuted the church he includes himself in the "we"—"we lived in the passions of our flesh." For every sin, according to Paul, has something to do with the deception associated with living according to the flesh, which is the mother of all corruption. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.3.1-3
Efésios 2:4
These are the true riches of God's mercy, that even when we did not seek it mercy was made known through his own initiative.… This is God's love to us, that having made us he did not want us to perish. His reason for making us was that he might love what he had made, seeing that no one hates his own workmanship. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.4
Efésios 2:5
God made us in Christ. So it is through Christ once again that he has formed us anew. We are his members; he our Head. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.5
Efésios 2:9
All thanksgiving for our salvation is to be given only to God. He extends his mercy to us so as to recall us to life precisely while we are straying, without looking for the right road. And thus we are not to glory in ourselves but in God, who has regenerated us by a heavenly birth through faith in Christ. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.10
Efésios 2:13
He reminds us that we were brought close to God by the blood of Christ in order to show how great is God's affection toward us, since he allowed his own Son to die. We too, enduring in faith, should not yield to despair in any of the agonies inflicted on us for his sake, knowing that what he deserves from us exceeds all that our enemies can bring upon us. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.13
Efésios 2:14
The passion of the Savior made peace between the circumcision and the uncircumcision. For the enmity, which was between them like a wall and divided the circumcision from the uncircumcision and the uncircumcision from the circumcision, was abolished by the Savior. His command is that the Jew should not so presume on his circumcision as to reproach the Gentile, nor should the Gentile trust in his uncircumcision, that is, his paganism, so as to abhor the Jew. Both, made new, should maintain in Christ their faith in the one God. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.14.1
Efésios 2:15
The law that he abolished was that which had been given to the Jews concerning circumcision and new moons and food and sacrifices and the sabbath. He ordered it to cease because it was a burden. In this way he made peace. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.15
Efésios 2:19
Believers become "fellow citizens" in a way analogous to all those who desired the peace of Rome. They brought gifts and were accepted as Roman citizens, as were the people of Cilician Tarsus. Paul was a Roman citizen of that city. So too anyone who has joined himself to the Christian faith becomes a fellow citizen of the saints and a member of God's household. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.19
Efésios 2:20
This means that the household of God is built upon both the old and the new covenants. For what the apostles preached had been foretold by the prophets. In his words to the Corinthians, that "God placed in the church first apostles then prophets," he is concerned with the order of the church. But in this case he is speaking of the foundation in the prophets of old. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.20