Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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] (John 11:25-26; Romans 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," Ephesians 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" (John 5:24). Salvation is to the Christian not a thing to be waited for hereafter, but already realized (I John 3:14). The parenthetic introduction of this clause here (compare Ephesians 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."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ephesians 2:5:
Song of Solomon 8:5
Romans 8:6
Ephesians 2:1
Ephesians 2:3
Ephesians 2:8
Colossians 2:15
Colossians 3:1
1 Peter 4:6
1 Peter 5:12
Revelation 3:1
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