Ephesians — Chapter 2
These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 8
8. By grace you are saued through faith.) Our first iustification of mere grace, & faith the foundation therof. Our first iustification is of God's grace, and not of our deseruings: because none of al our actions that were before our iustification, could merit or iustly procure the grace of iustification. Againe, he saith, through faith: for that faith is the beginning, foundation, and root of al iustification, and the first of al other vertues, without which it is impossible to please God.
Verse 20
20. Built vpon the foundation.) The Church builded vpon Christ, and yet vpon the Apostles also. Note against the Heretikes that thinke it dishonourable to Christ, to attribute his titles or callings to mortal men, that the faithful (though builded first, principally, and properly vpon Christ) yet are said here to be built also vpon the Apostles and Prophets. Why may not the Church then be builded vpon Peter?