Exodus 33:16

33:16 For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?” ¹ 

Ephesians 2:10

2:10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them. ² 

Ephesians 2:2

2:2 in which ³  you formerly lived ⁴  according to this world’s present path, ⁵  according to the ruler of the kingdom ⁶  of the air, the ruler of ⁷  the spirit ⁸  that is now energizing ⁹  the sons of disobedience, ¹⁰ 

Ephesians 2:13-14

2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹¹  2:14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ¹²  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

Ephesians 2:2

2:2 in which ¹³  you formerly lived ¹⁴  according to this world’s present path, ¹⁵  according to the ruler of the kingdom ¹⁶  of the air, the ruler of ¹⁷  the spirit ¹⁸  that is now energizing ¹⁹  the sons of disobedience, ²⁰ 

Ephesians 2:19

2:19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Ephesians 2:1

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2:1 And although you were ²¹  dead ²²  in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:9

2:9 it is not from ²³  works, so that no one can boast. ²⁴ 

Ephesians 2:2

2:2 in which ²⁵  you formerly lived ²⁶  according to this world’s present path, ²⁷  according to the ruler of the kingdom ²⁸  of the air, the ruler of ²⁹  the spirit ³⁰  that is now energizing ³¹  the sons of disobedience, ³² 

Ephesians 2:9

2:9 it is not from ³³  works, so that no one can boast. ³⁴ 

[33:16]  ¹ sn See W. Brueggemann, “The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel,” HBT 1 (1979): 47-86; and N. M. Waldman, “God’s Ways – A Comparative Note,” JQR 70 (1979): 67-70.

[2:10]  ² tn Grk “so that we might walk in them” (or “by them”).

[2:2]  ³ sn The relative pronoun which is feminine as is sins, indicating that sins is the antecedent.

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “walked.”

[2:2]  ⁵ tn Or possibly “Aeon.”

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Grk “domain, [place of] authority.”

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Grk “of” (but see the note on the word “spirit” later in this verse).

[2:2]  ⁸ sn The ruler of the kingdom of the air is also the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience. Although several translations regard the ruler to be the same as the spirit, this is unlikely since the cases in Greek are different (ruler is accusative and spirit is genitive). To get around this, some have suggested that the genitive for spirit is a genitive of apposition. However, the semantics of the genitive of apposition are against such an interpretation (cf. ExSyn 100).

[2:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “working in.”

[2:2]  ¹⁰ sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God.

[2:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “have come near in the blood of Christ.”

[2:14]  ¹² tn Grk “who made the both one.”

[2:2]  ¹³ sn The relative pronoun which is feminine as is sins, indicating that sins is the antecedent.

[2:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “walked.”

[2:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or possibly “Aeon.”

[2:2]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “domain, [place of] authority.”

[2:2]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “of” (but see the note on the word “spirit” later in this verse).

[2:2]  ¹⁸ sn The ruler of the kingdom of the air is also the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience. Although several translations regard the ruler to be the same as the spirit, this is unlikely since the cases in Greek are different (ruler is accusative and spirit is genitive). To get around this, some have suggested that the genitive for spirit is a genitive of apposition. However, the semantics of the genitive of apposition are against such an interpretation (cf. ExSyn 100).

[2:2]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “working in.”

[2:2]  ²⁰ sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God.

[2:1]  ²¹ tn The adverbial participle “being” (ὄντας, ontas) is taken concessively.

[2:1]  ²² sn Chapter 2 starts off with a participle, although you were dead, that is left dangling. The syntax in Greek for vv. 1-3 constitutes one incomplete sentence, though it seems to have been done intentionally. The dangling participle leaves the readers in suspense while they wait for the solution (in v. 4) to their spiritual dilemma.

[2:9]  ²³ tn Or “not as a result of.”

[2:9]  ²⁴ tn Grk “lest anyone should boast.”

[2:2]  ²⁵ sn The relative pronoun which is feminine as is sins, indicating that sins is the antecedent.

[2:2]  ²⁶ tn Grk “walked.”

[2:2]  ²⁷ tn Or possibly “Aeon.”

[2:2]  ²⁸ tn Grk “domain, [place of] authority.”

[2:2]  ²⁹ tn Grk “of” (but see the note on the word “spirit” later in this verse).

[2:2]  ³⁰ sn The ruler of the kingdom of the air is also the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience. Although several translations regard the ruler to be the same as the spirit, this is unlikely since the cases in Greek are different (ruler is accusative and spirit is genitive). To get around this, some have suggested that the genitive for spirit is a genitive of apposition. However, the semantics of the genitive of apposition are against such an interpretation (cf. ExSyn 100).

[2:2]  ³¹ tn Grk “working in.”

[2:2]  ³² sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God.

[2:9]  ³³ tn Or “not as a result of.”

[2:9]  ³⁴ tn Grk “lest anyone should boast.”