Ephesians 2:5

5. Even… dead His mercy was alive when we were dead. He loved us even when we were most unlovely. Hence how truly is all by grace.

And, here, at the commencement of the picture of the redemptive process, at the first mention of our life-dawn in Christ, Paul flings abruptly in this hint, by grace… saved, preparatory to his expanding the complete statement at the close of the process, Ephesians 2:8. Mercy, goodness, grace, and all from nothing less than God, is what he is so impatient to bring out that he can hardly wait to state the process in which those glorious and melting attributes display themselves. This grace is understood best by emphasizing the even… dead intensely. Dead; given over to darkness, depravity, the devil, and wrath; over that scene it is that the light of grace breaks with healing in its beams.

Quickened Inspired with life; life for soul first, life for body next, life in eternity last.

With Christ Who was raised, as pictured in Ephesians 1:20.