The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 16 : Paul’s Parenthetical Thought and the Depravity of Man  (2:1)

How the different translations handle Paul’s broken sentence  –  Anacoluthon defined  –  This section refers back to 1:15-23  –  People dead in sin  –  We are not born alive then die, we are born spiritually dead  –  How spiritual death effects mankind  –  People who are spiritually dead may have ‘various degrees of corruption’  –  While spiritually dead, people are still responsible for their actions  –  Death is not ‘extinction’ but ‘separation’  –  The mystery and paradox of salvation  –  Trespasses and sins defined