EPHESIANS 2:1-5, C. H. Cayce Brother D. M. Raulston, of East Chattanooga, Tenn., asks, “What do you believe Eph. 2:1 teaches— especially the word quickened?” The words hath he quickened in Eph. 2:1 are not in the original, but are in Eph. 2:5. The word quickened, as here used, means to make alive; to vivify; to revive; to resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. The language simply means that the Lord made them alive from the dead. They had been dead in trespasses and sins before this work was done; but when this was done they were raised up out of a state of death into a state of life. They possessed natural life before this work was done; but they now possess a higher order of life— the divine life. They have been made partakers of the divine nature, and have been given eternal life. The Primitive Baptist, May 4, 1915.