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By Grace Through Faith

1 And ayou He made alive, bwho were dead in trespasses and sins,  
2 ain which you once walked according to the1 course of this world, according to bthe prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in cthe sons of disobedience,  
3 aamong whom also we all once conducted ourselves in bthe lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and cwere by nature children of wrath, just as the others.  
4 But God, awho is rich in mercy, because of His bgreat love with which He loved us,  
5 aeven when we were dead in trespasses, bmade us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),  
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together ain the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in aHis kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.  
8 aFor by grace you have been saved bthrough faith, and that not of yourselves; cit is the gift of God,  
9 not of aworks, lest anyone should bboast.  
10 For we are aHis workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.  

Brought Near by His Blood

11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called athe Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—  
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Christ Our Peace

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one anew man from the two, thus making peace,  
16 and that He might areconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bputting to death the enmity.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ephesians 2:2

the course of this world—the career (literally, "the age," compare Galatians 1:4), or present system of this world (I Corinthians 2:6, I Corinthians 2:12; I Corinthians 3:18-19, as opposed to "the world to come"): alien from God, and lying in the wicked one (I John 5:19). "The age" (which is something more external and ethical) regulates "the world" (which is something more external).

the prince of the power of the air—the unseen God who lies underneath guiding "the course of this world" (II Corinthians 4:4); ranging through the air around us: compare Mark 4:4, "fowls of the air" (Greek, "heaven") that is, (Ephesians 2:15), "Satan" and his demons. Compare Ephesians 6:12; John 12:31. Christ's ascension seems to have cast Satan out of heaven (Revelation 12:5, Revelation 12:9-10, Revelation 12:12-13), where he had been heretofore the accuser of the brethren (Job 1:6-11). No longer able to accuse in heaven those justified by Christ, the ascended Saviour (Romans 8:33-34), he assails them on earth with all trials and temptations; and "we live in an atmosphere poisonous and impregnated with deadly elements. But a mighty purification of the air will be effected by Christ's coming" [AUBERLEN], for Satan shall be bound (Revelation 12:12-13, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:17; Revelation 20:2-3). "The power" is here used collectively for the "powers of the air"; in apposition with which "powers" stand the "spirits," comprehended in the singular, "the spirit," taken also collectively: the aggregate of the "seducing spirits" (I Timothy 4:1) which "work now (still; not merely, as in your case, 'in time past') in the sons of disobedience" (a Hebraism: men who are not merely by accident disobedient, but who are essentially sons of disobedience itself: compare Matthew 3:7), and of which Satan is here declared to be "the prince." The Greek does not allow "the spirit" to refer to Satan, "the prince" himself, but to "the powers of the air" of which he is prince. The powers of the air are the embodiment of that evil "spirit" which is the ruling principle of unbelievers, especially the heathen (Acts 26:18), as opposed to the spirit of the children of God (Luke 4:33). The potency of that "spirit" is shown in the "disobedience" of the former. Compare Deuteronomy 32:20, "children in whom is no faith" (Isaiah 30:9; Isaiah 57:4). They disobey the Gospel both in faith and practice (II Thessalonians 1:8; II Corinthians 2:12).




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