Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:5

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickned us together with Christ by grace ye are saved .

Hath raised us up from the Death of Sin to the Life of Righteousness, not onely in our Justification in which God frees us from our obnoxiousness to eternal Death, and gives us a Right to eternal Life, who before were dead in Law, (though this may be included) but especially in our Regeneration by the infusion of a vital principle.

Either 1. God in quickning Christ hath also quickned us; Christ's quickning or receiving his Life after Death being not only the Type and Exemplar of our Spiritual enlivening or Regeneration, but the cause of it, in as much as we are quickned as meritoriously by his Death, so effectively by his Life: Christ as having died and risen again exerciseth that Power the Father gave him of quickning whom he will, Ioh. 5.21. or 2. in Christ as our Head Virtually, and by the Power of his Resurrection Actually: or 3. by the same Power whereby he raised up Christ from the Dead, ch. 1.19. see the like expression, Col. 2.13.

Some reade the words without a Parenthesis, supplying by whose, and so refer them to Christ, quickned us together with him by whose grace ye are saved; but if the Parenthesis stand yet, here seems to be a connexion with the foregoing words, at least a reason of the Apostle's bringing in these, for having mentioned God's great love, v. 4. as the cause of their Spiritual enlivening here, which is the beginning of their Salvation; he infers from thence that the whole of their Salvation is of Grace, i. e. alike free, and as much out of God's great love, as the beginning of it, viz. their quickning is.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 5.6, [illegible: 1 word] 10; [illegible: 1 word]. 6.4, 5 [illegible: 1 word] 3 1, 3.; [illegible: 1 word] by whose [illegible: 1 word] see Act. [illegible: 2 letters] 11.