Ephesians 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And walk in love; let your whole conversation be in love. As Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us; viz. to die for us, Galatians 2:20, as the greatest argument of his love, 1 Thessalonians 15:13 Romans 5:8. An offering and a sacrifice to God: either offering signifies a meat-offering, which was joined as an appendix with the bloody sacrifice; or rather more generally, all the oblations that were under the law; and the word sacrifice either restrains it to those especially in which blood was shed for expiation of sin, or explains the meaning of it: q.d. Christ gave himself an offering, even a sacrifice in the proper sense, i.e. a bloody one. For a sweet-smelling savour; i.e. acceptable to God; alluding to the legal sacrifices, \see Genesis 8:21 Leviticus 1:9\ and intimating those other to have been accepted of God, only, with respect to that of Christ; and that as Christ dying to reconcile sinners to God was acceptable to him, so our spiritual sacrifices are then only like to be accepted of him, when we are reconciled to our brother, Matthew 5:23,24.