Eph 2:5 What does "quickened" mean in this context?
Eph 2:5 What does "quickened" mean in this context?
Quickened here means to cause to live, to make alive.
It is used here in the sense of being raised from death to life with Christ (CP V1-7). In their unsaved state believers were spiritually dead in trespasses and sins.
But upon being converted, they were made alive by the Holy Spirit to a renewed life in Christ (CP Ro 6:3-13; Eph 5:14; Col 2:8-13).
Quickened in this context means a type of spiritual resurrection; it expresses what being born again means (CP Jn 3:3-5).
See also comments on Ro 6:1, 6:3-5, 6:6-14; 2Ti 2:11-13.