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In this section of Ephesians (chapters 1:-3:), which is mainly devoted to the unfolding
of doctrine, while the question of walk is raised, no details are given. That is supplied in
the practical portion (chapters 4:-6:), which opens with the exhortation to "walk
worthy". In Eph. 2:, the two walks are just put into their categories. It is either the
walk of the unregenerate "In time past ye walked according to the course of this world",
or it is the walk of the newly-created "good works which God hath foreordained that we
should walk in them".
This brings us to the end of the smallest section of this epistle, The Almonry,
Eph. 2: 8-10. Yet what wealth is here, wealth not merely stored up, but out-poured. A
glance back to verses two and three will show the condition, view spiritually, in which
the recipients of this grace were "by nature". The next section opens up the equally dark
prospect that was before those thus saved, when looked at as they were nationally,
Gentiles in the flesh.