Ephesians 2:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:By grace ye are saved through faith — Grace, without any respect to human worthiness, confers the glorious gift. Faith, with an empty hand, and without any pretence to personal desert, receives the heavenly blessing.And this is not of yourselves — This refers to the whole preceding clause, That ye are saved through faith, is the gift of God. read more

Daniel Whedon

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

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:4-8

4-8. This passage is a pictorial parallel with Ephesians 1:20-23; and a pictorial contrast with Ephesians 2:1-3. The parallel is drawn between the corporeal death, resurrection, and enthronement of Christ, and the death in sin and co-resurrection and co-enthronement of the Church with him. That a parallelism is intended, overlooked though it has been by commentators, is plain both from the progress of the two pictures and from the sameness of the terms used: raised… sit… heavenly places.... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:8

8. For In view of this divine organic process now completely stated. By grace Gratis, for nothing in return. Are ye saved Not merely converted, justified, and sanctified; but gloriously saved saved from death, the devil, and hell; saved to resurrection, Christ, God, and glory, in the full sight of the endless aeons to come. Through faith As the instrument in God’s hands; the handle by which he gets hold of us to snatch us from Satan and spring us into heaven. For the Greek... read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ephesians 2:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:4-8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:8

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