5. dead in sins--The best reading is in the Greek, "dead in our (literally, 'the') trespasses."
quickened--"vivified" spiritually, and consequences hereafter,
corporally. There must be a spiritual resurrection of the soul before
there can be a comfortable resurrection of the body
[PEARSON]
(Joh 11:25, 26;
Ro 8:11).
together with Christ--The Head being seated at God's right hand,
the body also sits there with Him [CHRYSOSTOM].
We are already seated there IN Him ("in Christ
Jesus,"
Eph 2:6),
and hereafter shall be seated by Him; IN
Him already as in our Head, which is the ground of our hope; by
Him hereafter, as by the conferring cause, when hope shall be swallowed
up in fruition [PEARSON]. What God wrought in
Christ, He wrought (by the very fact) in all united to Christ, and one
with Him.
by grace ye are saved--Greek, "Ye are in a saved state." Not
merely "ye are being saved," but ye "are passed from death unto life"
(Joh 5:24).
Salvation is to the Christian not a thing to be waited for hereafter,
but already realized
(1Jo 3:14).
The parenthetic introduction of this clause here (compare
Eph 2:8)
is a burst of Paul's feeling, and in order to make the Ephesians feel
that grace from first to last is the sole source of salvation;
hence, too, he says "ye," not "we."
JFB.
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