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Ephesians 1:13

Context
1:13 And when 1  you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ 2  – you were marked with the seal 3  of the promised Holy Spirit, 4 

Ephesians 2:2

Context
2:2 in which 5  you formerly lived 6  according to this world’s present path, 7  according to the ruler of the kingdom 8  of the air, the ruler of 9  the spirit 10  that is now energizing 11  the sons of disobedience, 12 

1 tn Grk “in whom you also, when…” (continuing the sentence from v. 12).

2 tn Grk “in whom also having believed.” The relative pronoun “whom” has been replaced in the translation with its antecedent (“Christ”) to improve the clarity.

3 tn Or “you were sealed.”

4 tn Grk “the Holy Spirit of promise.” Here ἐπαγγελίας (epangelias, “of promise”) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

5 sn The relative pronoun which is feminine as is sins, indicating that sins is the antecedent.

6 tn Grk “walked.”

sn The Greek verb translated lived (περιπατέω, peripatew) in the NT letters refers to the conduct of one’s life, not to physical walking.

7 tn Or possibly “Aeon.”

sn The word translated present path is the same as that which has been translated [this] age in 1:21 (αἰών, aiwn).

8 tn Grk “domain, [place of] authority.”

9 tn Grk “of” (but see the note on the word “spirit” later in this verse).

10 sn The ruler of the kingdom of the air is also the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience. Although several translations regard the ruler to be the same as the spirit, this is unlikely since the cases in Greek are different (ruler is accusative and spirit is genitive). To get around this, some have suggested that the genitive for spirit is a genitive of apposition. However, the semantics of the genitive of apposition are against such an interpretation (cf. ExSyn 100).

11 tn Grk “working in.”

12 sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God.



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