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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.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we - Jews. Also, formerly had our conversation: doing the will of the flesh - In gross, brutal sins. And of the mind - By spiritual, diabolical wickedness. In the former clause, flesh denotes the whole evil nature; in the latter, the body opposed to the soul. And were by nature - That is, in our natural state. Children of wrath - Having the wrath of God abiding on us, even as the gentiles. This expression, by nature, occurs also, Galatians 4:8; Romans 2:14; and thrice in Romans 11:24. But in none of these places does it signify, by custom, or practice, or customary practice, as a late writer affirms. Nor can it mean so here For this would make the apostle guilty of gross tautology, their customary sinning having been expressed already, in the former part of the verse. But all these passages agree in expressing what belongs to the nature of the persons spoken of.




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