Ephesians 2 | |
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Book | Epistle to the Ephesians |
Category | Pauline epistles |
Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Order in the Christian part | 10 |
Ephesians 2 is the second chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Traditionally, it is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62), but more recently it has been suggested that it was written between AD 80 and 100 by another writer using Paul's name and style. [1] [2]
The 1599 Geneva Bible summarises the contents of this chapter:
This chapter contains the well-known verse For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith: and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. [4]
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
According to theologian James Dunn, this section contains "one of the most forceful statements in the Bible" about the human condition when separated from God's grace and the work of God's grace for salvation. [5]
"And you hath he quickened …" in the King James Version. The verb is missing from the text, supplied by inference from verse 5 ("[he] made us alive"). [7] Some translations decline to add a form of words on mankind being made alive: the New Revised Standard Version, for example, reads:
The metaphor, "the prince of the power of the air" or "the ruler of the power of the air", is not used elsewhere in the New Testament.
Mark 2:2: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. [12]
The verse describes that before being saved, converts were just as bad as those outside the faith - that they gave in to their baser thoughts and impulses.
There is debate about the phrase "children of wrath". Some indicate it refers to Original Sin, in which God was angered by Adam and Eve for disobeying him. Others believe it refers to the descendants of Cain, who slew Abel in his anger and brought murder into the world.[ citation needed]
This is another review of the believers' transition from the past life to the "new humanity" (verse 15), from the perspective of the saving work of God through Israel which is now open to all through Christ. [15]
The image of the gentiles as being "far off" and "brought near" is also used in the Acts of the Apostles, where Peter speaks to the Pentecost crowds in Jerusalem saying:
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that "nigh” and “far” were also familiar rabbinical terms in the sense of having or not having part in the covenant. " Johann Jakob Wettstein on this verse quotes, 'inter alia', the following from the Talmud:
Ephesians 2 | |
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Book | Epistle to the Ephesians |
Category | Pauline epistles |
Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Order in the Christian part | 10 |
Ephesians 2 is the second chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Traditionally, it is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62), but more recently it has been suggested that it was written between AD 80 and 100 by another writer using Paul's name and style. [1] [2]
The 1599 Geneva Bible summarises the contents of this chapter:
This chapter contains the well-known verse For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith: and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. [4]
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
According to theologian James Dunn, this section contains "one of the most forceful statements in the Bible" about the human condition when separated from God's grace and the work of God's grace for salvation. [5]
"And you hath he quickened …" in the King James Version. The verb is missing from the text, supplied by inference from verse 5 ("[he] made us alive"). [7] Some translations decline to add a form of words on mankind being made alive: the New Revised Standard Version, for example, reads:
The metaphor, "the prince of the power of the air" or "the ruler of the power of the air", is not used elsewhere in the New Testament.
Mark 2:2: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. [12]
The verse describes that before being saved, converts were just as bad as those outside the faith - that they gave in to their baser thoughts and impulses.
There is debate about the phrase "children of wrath". Some indicate it refers to Original Sin, in which God was angered by Adam and Eve for disobeying him. Others believe it refers to the descendants of Cain, who slew Abel in his anger and brought murder into the world.[ citation needed]
This is another review of the believers' transition from the past life to the "new humanity" (verse 15), from the perspective of the saving work of God through Israel which is now open to all through Christ. [15]
The image of the gentiles as being "far off" and "brought near" is also used in the Acts of the Apostles, where Peter speaks to the Pentecost crowds in Jerusalem saying:
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that "nigh” and “far” were also familiar rabbinical terms in the sense of having or not having part in the covenant. " Johann Jakob Wettstein on this verse quotes, 'inter alia', the following from the Talmud: