Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ephesians 2:5

"even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved)," — Ephesians 2:5 (ASV)

(By grace ye are saved.)

Not by human merit, not by the energy of our own will; but, by grace ye are saved.

(By grace you are saved; )

See, Paul puts that in a parenthesis. It was not necessary to the sense, but he knew that there would come a time when men would not like this doctrine, so he puts it in, by grace are you saved. They cannot bear it, and therefore they will have it. They will have it when the sense does not seem to demand it. To make it quite clear, he will insert it, by grace are you saved.

Hath quickened us together with Christ,

Ah! That accounts for everything: together with Christ. When we get together with Christ, then are we made alive, then are we saved. Are you, my dear hearers, quickened together with Christ?