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Efeziers 2:8

Diverse Auteurs, NetBible, [2007], Ef 2:8 For by grace you are saved tn See note on the same expression in v. 5.
through faith tc The feminine article is found before pivstew" (pistews, "faith") in the Byzantine text as well as in A Y 1881 pc. Perhaps for some scribes the article was intended to imply creedal fidelity as a necessary condition of salvation ("you are saved through the faith"), although elsewhere in the corpus Paulinum the phrase diaV th'" pivstew" (dia th" pistew") is used for the act of believing rather than the content of faith (cf. Rom 3:30, 31; Gal 3:14; Eph 3:17; Col 2:12). On the other side, strong representatives of the Alexandrian and Western texts (I B D* F G P 0278 6 33 1739 al bo) lack the article. Hence, both text-critically and exegetically, the meaning of the text here is most likely "saved through faith" as opposed to "saved through the faith." Regarding the textual problem, the lack of the article is the preferred reading.
Diverse Auteurs, Willibrord Vertaling, [2006], Een korte uitweiding over het tussenzinnetje van v. 5, herinnerend aan de tegenstelling tussen geloof en werken in brieven van Paulus, vgl. Rom 3,20 (+ aant.); Gal 2,16.

- -, www.carm.org, [], Are we saved by grace or works?

- -, www.carm.org, [], Are we saved by faith or by baptism?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether an angel can enlighten man?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether any virtue is caused in us by habituation?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether the articles of faith have increased in course of time?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether faith is one virtue?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether in the demons there is faith?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, [], Whether faith is infused into man by God?
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Want [24]uit genade zijt gij [25]zalig geworden [26]door het geloof; en [27]dat niet uit u, het is Gods gave;
24. Of, door de genade, namelijk van God in Christus, gelijk in
vs.7 is verklaard.
25. Dat is, van de zonde en de straf der zonde verlost, en tot
erfgenaam der eeuwige zaligheid gesteld.
26. Namelijk waardoor deze genade Gods in Christus van ons wordt
aangenomen en ons toegeeigend; Joh.1:12; Rom.3:24,25.
27. Namelijk dat is niet uit u, dat gij gelooft. Want anders zou
de apostel een ding tweemaal zeggen, en niet alleen de zaligheid
zelve, maar ook het geloof is ene gave Gods. Zie Fillip.1:29;
2 Tim.1:9, enz.

Blog, James Gregory's Blog, [], 5 feb 2008 Ephesians Sentence by Sentence: 2:8-9

John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible, [], Ef 2:8 Ver. 8. For by grace are ye saved,.... This is to be understood, not of temporal salvation, nor of preservation in Christ, nor of providential salvation in order to calling, and much less of being put in a way of salvation, or only in a salvable state; but of spiritual salvation, and that actual; for salvation was not only resolved upon, contrived and secured in the covenant of grace, for the persons here spoken to, but it was actually obtained and wrought out for them by Christ, and was actually applied unto them by the Spirit; and even as to the full enjoyment of it, they had it in faith and hope; and because of the certainty of it, they are said to be already saved; and besides, were representatively possessed of it in Christ their head: those interested in this salvation, are not all mankind, but particular persons; and such who were by nature children of wrath, and sinners of the Gentiles; and it is a salvation from sin, Satan, the law, its curse and condemnation, and from eternal death, and wrath to come; and includes all the blessings of grace and glory; and is entirely owing to free grace: for by grace is not meant the Gospel, nor gifts of grace, nor grace infused; but the free favour of God, to which salvation in all its branches is ascribed; as election, redemption, justification, pardon, adoption, regeneration, and eternal glory: the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "by his grace", and so some copies; and it may refer to the grace of all the three Persons; for men are saved by the grace of the Father, who drew the plan of salvation, appointed men to it, made a covenant with his Son, in which it is provided and secured, and sent him into the world to obtain it; and by the grace of the Son, who engaged as a surety to effect it, assumed human nature, obeyed and suffered in it for that purpose, and has procured it; and by the grace of the Spirit, who makes men sensible of their need of it, brings it near, sets it before them, and applies it to them, and gives them faith and hope in it: hence it follows,
through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; salvation is through faith, not as a cause or condition of salvation, or as what adds anything to the blessing itself; but it is the way, or means, or instrument, which God has appointed, for the receiving and enjoying it, that so it might appear to be all of grace; and this faith is not the produce of man's free will and power, but it is the free gift of God; and therefore salvation through it is consistent with salvation by grace; since that itself is of grace, lies entirely in receiving grace and gives all the glory to the grace of God: the sense of this last clause may be, that salvation is not of ourselves; it is not of our desiring nor of our deserving, nor of our performing, but is of the free grace of God: though faith is elsewhere represented as the gift of God, Joh 6:65 and it is called the special gift of faith, in the Apocrypha:
"And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall be given the "special gift of faith", and an inheritance in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his mind.'' (Wisdom 3:14)
----- (I asked the following question from a Greek and Hebrew professor:
"In this verse, to what does the word "that" refer to? Adam Clarke, Wesley & company say that it is neuter plural and "Faith" is feminine hence it cannot refer to faith, (Such an admission would destroy their theological system.) However "Grace" is also feminine as is "Salvation".''
His reply was:
"Here you ask a wonderful theological/exegetical question to which I can only give an opinion, and not a definitive answer. The problem is that there is NO precise referent. Grace is feminine. Faith is feminine. And even Salvation (as a noun) is feminine. Yet it must be one of these three at least, and maybe more than one, or all three in conjunction. Since all three come from God and not from man, the latter might seem the more likely. However, it is a tautology to say salvation and grace are "nor of yourselves," and in that case it certainly looks more like the passage is really pointing out that man cannot even take credit for his own act of faith, but that faith was itself created by God and implanted in us that we might believe (i.e. the normal Calvinistic position). In which regard the whole theological issue of "regeneration preceding faith" comes into play. So, that is basically my opinion, though others obviously disagree strenuously, but from an exegetical standpoint, the other positions have to explain away the matter of the tautology.''