Epheser 2:13

13 Jetzt aber, in Christo Jesu, seid ihr, die ihr einst fern waret, durch das Blut des Christus nahe geworden.

Epheser 2:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus
Being openly and visibly in Christ, created in him, and become believers in him; as they were before secretly in him, as chosen and blessed in him before the foundation of the world:

ye who sometimes were far off;
who in their state of unregeneracy were afar off from God, and from his law, and from any spiritual knowledge of him and fellowship with him; and from Jesus Christ, and from the knowledge of his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him; and from the Spirit, and any acquaintance with the things of the Spirit, and from minding them, and from walking after him; and from the saints and people of God, and from any love to them, and communion with them; and from any solid hopes of happiness, or real peace and comfort; which distance was owing both to Adam's sin and to their own transgressions: it is an observation of a Jewish writer

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 on ( Genesis 3:9 ) "where art thou?" he (God) knew where he was, but he said so to show him that he was (pxwrm) , "afar off from" God by his sin: see ( Isaiah 59:2 ) , and yet

are made nigh by the blood of Christ:
so as to have nearness of access to and communion with God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and the saints, in virtue of the blood of Christ; which gives boldness and speaks peace; by which their persons are justified, the pardon of their sins is procured, reconciliation is made, and their garments are washed, and made white; and so they draw nigh with confidence by the faith of him.

F1 R. Abraham Seba, Tzeror Hammor, fol. 7. 2.

Epheser 2:13 In-Context

11 Deshalb seid eingedenk, daß ihr, einst die Nationen im Fleische, welche Vorhaut genannt werden von der sogenannten Beschneidung, die im Fleische mit Händen geschieht,

12 daß ihr zu jener Zeit ohne Christum waret, entfremdet dem Bürgerrecht Israels, und Fremdlinge betreffs der Bündnisse der Verheißung, keine Hoffnung habend, und ohne Gott in der Welt.

13 Jetzt aber, in Christo Jesu, seid ihr, die ihr einst fern waret, durch das Blut des Christus nahe geworden.

14 Denn er ist unser Friede, der aus beiden eines gemacht und abgebrochen hat die Zwischenwand der Umzäunung,

15 nachdem er in seinem Fleische die Feindschaft, das Gesetz der Gebote in Satzungen, hinweggetan hatte, auf daß er die zwei, Frieden stiftend, in sich selbst zu einem neuen Menschen schüfe,