Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:2

2 And walk in love , as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us , an offering, and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet smelling savour .

Let your whole conversation be in love.

Viz. to die for us, Gal. 2.20. as the greatest argument of his love, Ioh. 15.13. Rom. 5.8.

Either Offering signifies a Meat-offering, which was joined as an Appendix with the bloudy Sacrifice; or rather more generally, all the oblations that were under the Law, and the word Sacrifice either restrains it to those especially in which bloud was shed for expiation of Sin, or explains the meaning of it, q. d. Christ gave himself an Offering, even a Sacrifice in the proper sense, i. e. a Bloudy one.

i. e. Acceptable to God; alluding to the legal Sacrifices, see Gen. 8.21. Lev. 1.9. and intimating those other to have been accepted of God, onely with respect to that of Christ, and that as Christ dying to reconcile Sinners to God was acceptable to him, so our Spiritual Sacrifices are then onely like to be accepted of him, when we are reconciled to our Brother, Mat. 5.23, 24.

Marginal references: Joh. 13.34. 1 Thess. 4.9. 1 Joh. 3.23. & 4.21.; Heb. 9.14.