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Eph 2:2
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
In the original its:
τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας with the definite article, meaning the children of disobedience is a definite group of people whose manner of life will characterized by gospel disobedience.
Even though the elect are naturally disobedient Titus 3:3 yet they're not of the children of disobedience. The elect have the suretyship of Christ obedience on their behalf Rom 5:19 and they by it have been constituted righteous, obedient,
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
In the original its:
τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας with the definite article, meaning the children of disobedience is a definite group of people whose manner of life will characterized by gospel disobedience.
Even though the elect are naturally disobedient Titus 3:3 yet they're not of the children of disobedience. The elect have the suretyship of Christ obedience on their behalf Rom 5:19 and they by it have been constituted righteous, obedient,
- , upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
And in due time the Spirit Sanctifies them unto obedience 1 Pet 1:2
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
The children of disobedience have been appointed to disobedience as was these jews Peter writes of 1 Pet 2:8
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
So they're part of Paul's " the children of disobedience"