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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. You are brought near to Israel. You are brought nearer still to Israel’s God. Now you are not aliens. You are not strangers from the covenant. You have a hope, you have a God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he is our peace,.... The author of peace between Jew and Gentile: there was a great enmity of the Jew against the Gentile, and of the Gentile against the Jew; and chiefly on account of circumcision, the one being without it, and the other insisting on it, and branding one another with nicknames on account of it; but Christ has made peace...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he is our peace, Paul cannot do without Christ, you see. He will bring him in everywhere. Eph_2:14. Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; There is no longer the division between Jews and Gentiles.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; There are no privileges now for the Jew from which the Christian is shut out, for Christ “hath made both one.” There is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision now, for all believers are one in Christ Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he is our peace, Peace with God, peace with our own conscience, peace with all mankind we find in Christ. Eph_2:14. Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; So making Jews and Gentiles one;
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Christ is peace between Jew and Gentile — peace between both of them and their God. I have heard of a poor bricklayer, who, when at work on a scaffold, fell from a great height and was taken up and was dying. They sent for a minister of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; There is no circumcision and uncircumcision now, for that is done away with. There...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity,.... The ceremonial law, as appears by what follows, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; which consisted of many precepts, and carnal ordinances; and is so called because it was an indication of God's hatred of sin, by requiring sacrifice for it; and because it was an occasion of stirring...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having abolished in his flesh. See, it is always Christ, his flesh, his blood, his life. There must always be something about him: “Having abolished in his flesh.” Eph_2:15. The enmity, even the law of commandments containeth in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he I cannot help reminding you, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; Our Lord Jesus Christ was a Jew, yet I venture to say that there was nothing Jewish about him. He was the model of what man ought to have been, and his words and his actions made him worthy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: No enmity now should exist between Jew and Gentile. None does exist between the believer...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And that he might reconcile both unto God,.... This is another end of the abrogation of the ceremonial law: the Jews had run up a long score against the ceremonial law, as well as against the moral law; and Christ by fulfilling it for them, and thereby abrogating it, reconciled them; and the Gentiles could not be reconciled together with them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. There is the whole Trinity in that one verse, Christ, the Spirit, the Father. It needs the Trinity to make a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Christ is the Preacher of peace as well as the Maker of peace, and no man ever knows the peace of God unless Christ preaches it to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. To the Gentile and to the Jew, to the atrociously wicked, and to those who were religious after a fashion — he has brought them both in by the cross.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off,.... Which is to be understood not of Christ's coming in the flesh; for when he came in the flesh, he came only to the Jews that were nigh, and preached the Gospel in his own personal ministry to them, and not to the Gentiles, who are the persons afar off; Ephesians 2:12 but of his coming by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. In this verse you have the whole Trinity, and all the Trinity in unity are necessary for prayer. “Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For through him we both have an access, That is, both Jews and Gentiles; the Arabic version reads, "we both factions": being made one, and reconciled unto God, and having the Gospel of peace preached to both, they have through Christ freedom of access and boldness in it: by one Spirit unto the Father: they may come to God as the Father of spirits,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore — Here is another sweet “now.”