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Ephesians 2:5 (WEB)
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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“Justification consists in both victory over the death caused by sin and a new participation in grace.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 2:4-5; I Pt 1:3.

Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §3
““‘And when we were dead in sins He quickened us together in Christ;’ again Christ stands in the midst, and the work is wonderful.” — editor's note: Ephes. ii. 5
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Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen Chapter 2
““For we also were once children of wrath, even as others; but God, being rich in mercy, for the great love wherewith He loved us, when we were now dead in trespasses, quickened us together with Christ.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 3–5.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“Horum autem ortus, est animæ interitus: siquidem “delictis mortui” efficimur.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 5.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.10Book II
“For “those who were dead in sins are quickened together with Christ,” by our covenant.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith V.15Book V
“It is written, thou sayest, that “when we were dead in sins, He hath quickened us in Christ, by Whose grace ye are saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 5, 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.8Festal Letters
“As the blessed Paul saith in a certain place, when describing the incomprehensible riches of Christ: ‘But God, being rich in mercy, for the great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in follies and sins, quickened us with Christ.’” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 4, 5.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 133
“I am the hapless being against whom you ought to direct your insults, I who am for ever reading the words: “by grace ye are saved,” and “blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 5.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 13
“From the sea the people came out unharmed: we too, as it were, alive from the dead, step up from the water “saved” by the “grace” of Him who called us.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 5.
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Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 21
“Let us then, dearly beloved, give thanks to God the Father, through His Son, in the Holy Spirit, Who “for His great mercy, wherewith He has loved us,” has had pity on us: and “when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together in Christ,” that we might be in Him a new creation and a new production.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 4, 5.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 111
“And so accordingly we may understand the Lord to have said, “That where I am, there they may be also.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 4–6.
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