Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:8

8 For by grace are ye saved through saith , and that not of your selves , it is the gift of God .

The free favour of God, as v. 5.

Even ye Ephesians, Gentiles who had not such promises made to you as the Iews had, v. 12.

From first to last, from your calling, v. 5. to your glorification, v. 6. Obj. How are Believers said to be saved, when they are not yet glorified? Ans. 1. Because Christ their Head is glorified. 2. Because their Salvation begun in their effectual calling shall be as certainly accomplished in them as it is begun in them, and perfected in their Head Christ.

By which ye lay hold on the grace offered you in the Gospel. Faith is not considered here as a work done by us, but as an instrument or means applying the Grace and Salvation tendred to us.

Not for your own worth, nor by your own strength.

That ye are saved is the gift of God, and therefore free and purely by Grace. God is opposed to self: Gift relates not merely to Faith immediately preceding, but to the whole Sentence

Marginal references: Rom. 4.16.; Mat. 16.17. Chap. 1.19.