Ephesians 2:2 - Homilies By T. Croskery

The walk of the dead.

The expression is very significant, "In which ye walked." Superstition tells us that the dead walk in the shades of night. This is mere folly. Yet, day by day, we are really surrounded by the dead—not by spirits of the (lead, walking their hour in the darkness of night, but by living men like ourselves, pursuing their courses of worldly activity with all their wonted energy and zeal, yet "dead while they live," and unconscious of their death. The term "walking" implies the habitual course and tendency of life. Men were dead in sin just as they lived in sin, for the apostle says of the same sins, "In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them"' ( Colossians 3:7 ). The direction of their walking is—away from God, with their backs turned upon him, for unbelief is a departure from the living God; and the end of their walking is death, as it is all through, for "it is the way of death" ( Proverbs 2:18 ), and " their steps take hold on death" ( Proverbs 5:5 ). Well may we pray with David," Lord, search me and know my heart: .. see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" ( Psalms 139:23 ).—T.C.