Ephesians 2:13
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What does Ephesians 2:13 mean?
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
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.
