Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10
II. HISTORICAL INCLUSION OF THE EPHESIANS IN THE DIVINE ELECTIVE PURPOSE, Ephesians 2:1 to Ephesians 3:21. 1. Recapitulation of their original death and subsequent resurrection, Ephesians 2:1-10. In parallelism with Christ’s resurrection and exaltation in Ephesians 1:20-23, St. Paul pictures the conceptual death of the Ephesians by sin, and their resurrection and exaltation with Christ. Their state of death, Ephesians 2:1-3; their resurrection and exaltation with Christ, Ephesians 2:4-6.... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.For we are his workmanship — Which proves both that salvation is by faith, and that faith is the gift of God.Created unto good works — That afterwards we might give ourselves to them.Which God had before preprepared — The occasions of them: so we must still ascribe the whole to God.That we might walk in them — Though not be justified by them. read more