Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
Now, therefore--rather, "So then" [ALFORD]. foreigners--rather, "sojourners"; opposed to "members of the household," as "strangers" is to "fellow citizens." Phi 3:19-20, "conversation," Greek, "citizenship." but--The oldest manuscripts add, "are." with the saints--"the commonwealth of (spiritual) Israel" (Eph 2:12). of God--THE FATHER; as JESUS CHRIST appears in Eph 2:20, and THE SPIRIT in Eph 2:22.
Before Christ, the Gentiles stood outside altogether, aliens from Israel's commonwealth, stripped of every privilege. But look what the gospel has done: the believing Gentile now shares citizenship with the patriarchs and prophets, a free member of God's holy city, no distinction left between him and the believing Jew. The Church is a city, a household, a building, and you belong to all three.
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Christ is our peace because He broke down the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles, the ceremonial law itself, by abolishing its binding power through His flesh. He formed one new church of believers from these two hostile parties, uniting them to Himself as their common head.
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Commenting on Ephesians 2:14-22