Ephesians 2:2-4

1599 Geneva Bible

Footnotes

1. Ephesians 2:2 He proveth by the effects that all were spiritually dead.
2. Ephesians 2:2 He proveth this evil to be universal, insomuch as all are slaves of Satan.
3. Ephesians 2:2 At the pleasure of the prince.
4. Ephesians 2:2 Men are therefore slaves to Satan, because they are willingly rebellious against God.
5. Ephesians 2:2 They are called the children of disobedience, which are given to disobedience.
6. Ephesians 2:3 After that he hath severally condemned the Gentiles, he confesseth that the Jews, amongst whom he numbereth himself, are not a whit better.
7. Ephesians 2:3 By the name of flesh in the first place, he meaneth the whole man, which he divideth into two parts: into the flesh, which is the part that the Philosophers term without reason, and into the thought, which they call reasonable: so that he leaveth nothing in man half dead, but concludeth that the whole man is of nature the son of wrath.
8. Ephesians 2:3 The conclusion: All men are born subject to the wrath and curse of God.
9. Ephesians 2:3 Men are said to be children of wrath passively, that is to say, guilty of everlasting death by the judgment of God, who is angry with them.
10. Ephesians 2:3 Profane people which knew not God.
11. Ephesians 2:4 Now hereof followeth another member of the comparison, declaring our excellency, to wit, that by the virtue of Christ we are delivered from that death, and made partakers of eternal life, to the end that at length we may reign with him. And by divers and sundry means he beateth this into their heads, that the efficient cause of this benefit is the free mercy of God: and Christ himself is the material cause: and faith is the instrument which also is the free gift of God: and the end is God’s glory.