Ephesians 2:19

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 2:11-22

Reconciled and United by the Cross Ephesians 2:11-22 The state of the unconverted must be described by a series of negations. Shut the sun out of the world, love out of the home, liberty out of the state! The unsaved know not of their infinite loss; but if they could see what we inherit through union with Jesus, they could cease to wonder that we run not with them into the same excess of riot. Does a maiden need much persuasion to cast aside paste jewels when real ones are offered her! There... 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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:19

LIFE REALISED IN FELLOWSHIP‘Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow=citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.’ Ephesians 2:19 We maintain that the undenominational principle is wrong, from the standpoint not only of education, but also of religion—nay, that it not only fails to interpret, but it reverses, the method of Christ Himself, the Divine Teacher. Was it His method to lay down certain truths and maxims, and to leave individuals to make of them... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:11-22

They Are to Remember that They Were Once Excluded From Israel and the Promises But Are Now Made One With the True Israel; They Are Now the People of God (2:11-3:12) Paul here goes on to point out that the ordinances of the Law of Sinai (the whole sacrificial system and all that pertained to it), which were a cause of separation as they were what made Israel distinctive, have now been done away through His cross, which has superseded all offerings and sacrifices, and the result is that all can... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:19

‘So then you are no more strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow-citizens with the saints and of the household of God.’ Paul could not make clearer that all believers now form the new Israel. Previously they were ‘alienated from the commonwealth of Israel’, now they are fellow-citizens with ‘the saints’ (an Old Testament word for the true Israel). Previously they were strangers to the covenants of promise, now they are no longer ‘strangers and sojourners’. Previously they were ‘without... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:11-22

Ephesians 2:11-Song of Solomon : . The Gentile is now One with the Jew in God’ s New Man, and an Integral Part of God’ s Temple.— Those who, like the readers, were once Gentiles, are especially bound to remember the condition from which they were rescued ( Ephesians 2:11): at that time without Messiah, they were aliens in relation to the commonwealth of God’ s people, foreigners in relation to the covenants of promise, lacking in that hope of the future which the Jew had always possessed, and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:19

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners; such are they that may dwell in a city, but are not free of it. He means the same as Ephesians 3:12, they were not now aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, &c. But fellow citizens with the saints; members of the same spiritual society or corporation with other saints, patriarchs, prophets, &c. The church of God is compared to a city, of which every saint is a member or free-man, Philippians 3:20. And of the household of God: the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 2:19-22

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 2:19. So then.—Inference of Ephesians 2:14-18. Strangers and foreigners.—By the latter word is meant those who temporarily abide in a place, but are without the privileges of it. There is a verb “to parish” in certain parts of England which shows how a word can entirely reverse its original meaning. It not only means “to adjoin,” but “to belong to.” Fellow-citizens with the saints.—Enjoying all civic liberties, and able to say, “This is my own, my native... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:11-22

Ephesians 2:11-22 Judaism and Christianity. I. To Paul the moral confusion and the religious desolation of the Gentiles were appalling. He believed that they were enduring the just penalties of their own sins and the sins of their ancestors. The first chapter of Romans is a terrible commentary on what he meant by the Gentiles being without God in the world. Everything was changed by the coming and the death of Christ. By Him the whole world had been brought within the range of the grace and... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 2:19-22

DISCOURSE: 2102THE EXALTED PRIVILEGES OF TRUE CHRISTIANSEphesians 2:19-22. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.IT is well for... read more

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