the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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THE MESSAGE
Ephesians 2:1
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In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God.
And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins
And hath quickened you also that were deed in treaspasse and synne
You were made alive when you were dead through trespasses and sins,
And you were dead in your offenses and sins,
In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God.
And you [he made alive,] when you were dead through your trespasses and sins,
And you [hath he revived], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
You were made alive when you were dead through trespasses and sins,
And he hath quickened you,
To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,
And whanne ye weren deed in youre giltis and synnes,
And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
As for you, you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
In the past you were dead because you sinned and fought against God.
And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,
And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
You used to be dead because of your sins and acts of disobedience.
and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins—
You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins,John 5:24; Ephesians 2:5; 4:18; Colossians 2:13;">[xr]
You also who were dead in your sins and in your transgressions,
and also you, [fn] who were dead in your sins, and in your offences,
And you hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses, and sinnes,
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
At one time you were dead because of your sins.
You were dead through the trespasses and sins
And you hath he quickened, that were dead in trespasses and sinnes,
AND he has quickened you also who were dead because of your sins and trespasses;
Unto you also - being dead by your offences and sins,
And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,
And you that were dead in trespasses and sinnes,
In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
And you, although you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
and you being dead in deviations and sins,
Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
And quyckened you also, whan ye were deed thorow trespaces and synnes,
When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,
And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
It wasn't long ago that you were hung up in the stirrup of sin because you wouldn't live the way the Boss told you to.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
And you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
you: Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:6, Ephesians 1:19, Ephesians 1:20, John 5:25, John 10:10, John 11:25, John 11:26, John 14:6, Romans 8:2, 1 Corinthians 15:45, Colossians 2:13, Colossians 3:1-4
dead: Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 4:18, Ephesians 5:14, Matthew 8:22, Luke 15:24, Luke 15:32, John 5:21, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 1 Timothy 5:6, 1 John 3:14, Revelation 3:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Genesis 6:5 - every imagination Genesis 8:21 - the imagination Leviticus 11:24 - General Numbers 9:10 - be unclean Numbers 12:12 - as one dead Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead Deuteronomy 16:12 - General Psalms 14:1 - there Psalms 68:13 - ye have Psalms 80:18 - quicken Psalms 104:30 - sendest Proverbs 21:16 - remain Proverbs 29:13 - Lord Isaiah 64:6 - are all Ezekiel 37:11 - whole house Ezekiel 47:9 - shall live Matthew 7:11 - being Matthew 15:19 - out Matthew 20:15 - it Matthew 21:29 - he repented Luke 9:60 - Let John 3:3 - Except John 8:21 - and shall die John 10:16 - them John 12:31 - now Romans 3:10 - none Romans 4:17 - who quickeneth Romans 5:6 - For Romans 5:20 - But Romans 7:18 - that in me Romans 11:30 - as ye 1 Corinthians 6:11 - such 2 Corinthians 3:6 - giveth life Ephesians 4:17 - that ye Colossians 1:21 - sometime Titus 3:3 - we Hebrews 6:1 - dead
Cross-References
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
At the time God made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground— God hadn't yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)— God formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive—a living soul!
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
He wrote on, "Blessed be the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, and who gave King David a son so wise, so knowledgeable and shrewd, to build a temple for God and a palace for himself. I've sent you Huram-Abi—he's already on his way—he knows the construction business inside and out. His mother is from Dan and his father from Tyre. He knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, in purple, violet, linen, and crimson textiles; he is also an expert engraver and competent to work out designs with your artists and architects, and those of my master David, your father.
Then on the twenty-fourth day of this month, the People of Israel gathered for a fast, wearing burlap and faces smudged with dirt as signs of repentance. The Israelites broke off all relations with foreigners, stood up, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their parents. While they stood there in their places, they read from the Book of The Revelation of God , their God, for a quarter of the day. For another quarter of the day they confessed and worshiped their God . A group of Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the platform and cried out to God , their God, in a loud voice. The Levites Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "On your feet! Bless God , your God, for ever and ever!" Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise! You're the one, God , you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven's angels worship you!
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
God 's Message, the God who created the cosmos, stretched out the skies, laid out the earth and all that grows from it, Who breathes life into earth's people, makes them alive with his own life: "I am God . I have called you to live right and well. I have taken responsibility for you, kept you safe. I have set you among my people to bind them to me, and provided you as a lighthouse to the nations, To make a start at bringing people into the open, into light: opening blind eyes, releasing prisoners from dungeons, emptying the dark prisons. I am God . That's my name. I don't franchise my glory, don't endorse the no-god idols. Take note: The earlier predictions of judgment have been fulfilled. I'm announcing the new salvation work. Before it bursts on the scene, I'm telling you all about it."
God , Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, G od. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn't go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This God says: "I am God , the one and only. I don't just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.' I am God . I work out in the open, saying what's right, setting things right. So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don't seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick? So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what's going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn't I the one? God ? It had to be me. I'm the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help. So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God , the only God there is, the one and only. I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me, ‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God !'" All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief. And all who are connected with Israel will have a robust, praising, good life in God !
"Pay close attention now: I'm creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I'm creating: I'll create Jerusalem as sheer joy, create my people as pure delight. I'll take joy in Jerusalem, take delight in my people: No more sounds of weeping in the city, no cries of anguish; No more babies dying in the cradle, or old people who don't enjoy a full lifetime; One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal— anything less will seem like a cheat. They'll build houses and move in. They'll plant fields and eat what they grow. No more building a house that some outsider takes over, No more planting fields that some enemy confiscates, For my people will be as long-lived as trees, my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work. They won't work and have nothing come of it, they won't have children snatched out from under them. For they themselves are plantings blessed by God , with their children and grandchildren likewise God -blessed. Before they call out, I'll answer. Before they've finished speaking, I'll have heard. Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow, lion and ox eat straw from the same trough, but snakes—they'll get a diet of dirt! Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill anywhere on my Holy Mountain," says God .
But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing. He put the whole universe together And pays special attention to Israel. His name? God -of-the-Angel-Armies!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And you hath he quickened,.... The design of the apostle in this and some following verses, is to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and to set forth the sad estate and condition of man by nature, and to magnify the riches of the grace of God, and represent the exceeding greatness of his power in conversion: the phrase
hath he quickened, is not in the original text, but is supplied from Ephesians 2:5, where it will be met with and explained: here those who are quickened with Christ, and by the power and grace of God, are described in their natural and unregenerate estate,
who were dead in trespasses and sins; not only dead in Adam, in whom they sinned, being their federal head and representative; and in a legal sense, the sentence of condemnation and death having passed upon them; but in a moral sense, through original sin, and their own actual transgressions: which death lies in a separation from God, Father, Son, and Spirit, such are without God, and are alienated from the life of God, and they are without Christ, who is the author and giver of life, and they are sensual, not having the Spirit, who is the spirit of life; and in a deformation of the image of God, such are dead as to their understandings, wills, and affections, with respect to spiritual things, and as to their capacity to do any thing that is spiritually good; and in a loss of original righteousness; and in a privation of the sense of sin and misery; and in a servitude to sin, Satan, and the world: hence it appears, that man must be in himself unacceptable to God, infectious and hurtful to his fellow creatures, and incapable of helping himself: so it was usual with the Jews to call a wicked and ignorant man, a dead man; they say i,
"there is no death like that of those that transgress the words of the law, who are called, מתים, "dead men", and therefore the Scripture says, "turn and live".''
And again k,
"no man is called a living man, but he who is in the way of truth in this world.----And a wicked man who does not go in the way of truth, is called, מת, "a dead man".''
And once more l
"whoever is without wisdom, lo, he is כמת, "as a dead man";''
Ephesians 2:5- :. The Alexandrian and Claromontane copies, and one of Stephens's, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "dead in your trespasses and sins"; and the Syriac version, "dead in your sins and in your trespasses"; and the Ethiopic version only, "dead in your sins".
i Zohar in Gen, fol. 41. 3. k Ib. in Num. fol. 76. 1. Vid. ib;. in Exod. fol. 44. 2. l Caphtor, fol. 30. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, hath he made alive, or made to live; John 5:21; Rom 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:36.
Who were dead in trespasses and sins - On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the notes at Romans 5:12; Romans 6:2, note. It is affirmed here of those to whom Paul wrote at Ephesus, that before they were converted, they were “dead in sins.” There is not anywhere a more explicit proof of depravity than this, and no stronger language can be used. They were “dead” in relation to that to which they afterward became alive - i. e., to holiness. Of course, this does not mean that they were in all respects dead. It does not mean that they had no animal life, or that they did not breathe, and walk, and act. Nor can it mean that they had no living intellect or mental powers, which would not have been true. Nor does it settle any question as to their ability or power while in that state. It simply affirms a fact - that in relation to real spiritual life they were, in consequence of sin, like a dead man in regard to the objects which are around him.
A corpse is insensible. It sees not, and hears not, and feels not. The sound of music, and the voice of friendship and of alarm, do not arouse it. The rose and the lily breathe forth their fragrance around it, but the corpse perceives it not. The world is busy and active around it, but it is unconscious of it all. It sees no beauty in the landscape; hears not the voice of a friend; looks not upon the glorious sun and stars; and is unaffected by the running stream and the rolling ocean. So with the sinner in regard to the spiritual and eternal world. He sees no beauty in religion; he hears not the call of God; he is unaffected by the dying love of the Saviour; and he has no interest in eternal realities. In all these he feels no more concern, and sees no more beauty, than a dead man does in the world around him. Such is, in “fact,” the condition of a sinful world. There is, indeed, life, and energy, and motion. There are vast plans and projects, and the world is intensely active. But in regard to religion, all is dead. The sinner sees no beauty there; and no human power can arouse him to act for God, anymore than human power can rouse the sleeping dead, or open the sightless eyeballs on the light of day. The same power is needed in the conversion of a sinner which is needed in raising the dead; and one and the other alike demonstrate the omnipotence of him who can do it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II.
The character of the Ephesians previously to their conversion
to Christianity, 1-3.
By what virtue they were changed, and for what purpose, 4-7.
They were saved by faith, 8, 9.
And created unto good works, 10.
The apostle enters into the particulars of their former
miserable state, 11, 12.
And those of their present happy state, 13.
Christ has broken down the middle wall of partition between the
Jews and Gentiles, and proclaims reconciliation to both, 14-17.
The glorious privileges of genuine believers, 18-22.
NOTES ON CHAP. II.
Verse Ephesians 2:1. And you hath he quickened — This chapter should not have been separated from the preceding, with which it is most intimately connected. As Christ fills the whole body of Christian believers with his fulness, (Ephesians 1:23,) so had he dealt with the converted Ephesians, who before were dead in trespasses, and dead in sins. DEATH is often used by all writers, and in all nations, to express a state of extreme misery. The Ephesians, by trespassing and sinning, had brought themselves into a state of deplorable wretchedness, as had all the heathen nations; and having thus sinned against God, they were condemned by him, and might be considered as dead in law-incapable of performing any legal act, and always liable to the punishment of death, which they had deserved, and which was ready to be inflicted upon them.
Trespasses, παραπτωμασι, may signify the slightest deviation from the line and rule of moral equity, as well as any flagrant offence; for these are equally transgressions, as long as the sacred line that separates between vice and virtue is passed over.
Sins, αμαρτιαις, may probably mean here habitual transgression; sinning knowingly and daringly.
