Ephesians 2:2

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Ephesians 2:2

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Summary

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

In time

Walked according

The prince

Of the air

Revelation 16:17

The spirit

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

In time

of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

at length the town-clerk appeased the people, and thus began, "who is there, O Ephesians, that does not know, that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Diana, and of her statue, which fell from heaven:

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,

among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices.

for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.

we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.

Walked according

and this unfaithful steward was commended by his master for being so provident. for they who look to this world, manage their affairs with more prudence, than those who have a prospect of a better.

the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil.

and he said to them, ye are from beneath, I am from above: ye are of this world, I am not of this world.

if you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you.

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.

that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to

for Damas, out of love to this world has abandon'd me, and is gone to Thessalonica: Crescens, to Galatia: and Titus, to Dalmatia.

such a man must not expect any answer from the Lord.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

for he that is a true christian, overcomes the world: by obtaining faith, we have gain'd a victory over the world.

The prince

for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits.

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

now is this world condemn'd: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

for the prince of the world is coming:

of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd.

we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.

the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Of the air

And the SEVENTH angel poured out his vial into the air; and there a loud voice issued from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "it is done."

The spirit

When an unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he roams about the deserts, seeking rest, and findeth none.

when a man that is stout and well arm'd guards his palace, his possessions are safe.

being nigh, the chief priests consulted with the Scribes, how they might put Jesus to death; for they were afraid of the people.

while they were at supper, (the devil having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him) Jesus,

upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world.

General references

among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices.