Others (of Nowrol). + Rev., correctly, the rest. 4. But God. Resuming ver. i.
For His great love (6a). Lor the sake of, in order to satisfy His love.
* See Meyer on this passage.
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Quickened us together. Spiritually. Compare Col. ii. 13; Rom. vi. 11-14; viii. 10, 11. ‘What God wrought in Christ He wrought, zpso facto, in all who are united with Him” (Ellicott).
6. Raised us up. Compare Rom. vi. 5.
Made us sit together (cuvexadicev). Compare set Him, ch. i. 20. Together is ambiguous. Render with Him, as Rev. “Even now we sit there in Him, and shall sit with Him in the end” (Andrewes, cited by Ellicott). Compare Rom. viii. 30; Apoe. iii. 21. Meyer renders hath given us joint seat.
In Christ Jesus. Connect with raised up, made us sit, and in heavenly places. Resurrection, enthronement, heaven, all are in Christ.
7. The ages to come (ois aidow Tois érepyouevors). Lit., the ages, those which are coming on. Which are successively arriving until Christ’s second coming.
He might show (évdelEnrar). The middle voice denotes Jor His own glory. See on Col. i. 6.
In kindness (é» ypnotoryts). See on easy, Matt. xi. 30. The grace of God is to be displayed in His actual benefits.
8. For by grace, etc. This may truly be called exceeding riches of grace, for ye are saved by grace. (Grace has the art- icle, the grace of God, in vv. 5, 7.
And that. Not faith, but the salvation. Of God. Emphatic. Of God is it the gift.
10. For we are His workmanship. A reason why no man should glory. If we are God’s workmanship, our salvation cannot be of ourselves. Hts is emphatic. His workmanship are we.
Created («rioSévres). See on John i. 3. The verb origin- ally means to make habitable, to people. Hence to found. God is called xriotns creator, 1 Pet. iv. 19, and 6 «rloas he that cre-
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ated, Rom, i. 25. Compare Apoc. iv. 11. Kriow is used of the whole sum of created things, Mark x. 6; Rom. viii. 22.
Afore prepared (pontoiwacev). Rev., more correctly, prepared. Made ready beforehand. God prearranged a sphere of moral action for us to walk in. Not only are works the necessary outcome of faith, but the character and direction of the works are made ready by God.
That we should walk. Jn order that ; to the end that.
11. Uncircumcision—circumcision. Abstract for con- crete terms, the uncircumcised and circumcised.
Which is called. Notice the irony, giving back the called of the circumcised.
12. Being aliens (dmrnAdotpiwpévor). Reyv., better, giving the force of the verb, alienated. As they had once been oth- erwise. Paul speaks ideally of a spiritual commonwealth in which Jew and Gentile were together at peace with God, and of which the commonwealth of Israel is a type.
Israel. Selecting the most honorable title to describe the Jew. See on Acts iii. 12. The reference is to the spiritual rather than to the national distinction. In being separated from Christ, they were separated from that commonwealth in which, according to the promise, Christ would have been to them, as to the faithful Israelites, the object of their faith and the ground of their salvation.
Covenants. The several renewals of God’s covenant with the patriarchs.
Of promise (rijs érayyedias). Better, the promise. The messianic promise, which was the basis of all the covenants.
Without God (deo). God-forsaken. It might also mean godless or impious. The gentile gods were no gods.
13. Now in Christ Jesus. Vow, in contrast with at that tame. In Christ Jesus, in contrast with alienated from, ete. Jesus is added because the Christ who was the subject of prom-
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ise, the Messiah, has come into the world under that personal name. The phrase includes the promised Messiah and the ac. tual Saviour.