 | Dale Claerbaut - 2007 - 222 pages
...says that to the Israelites belong the "covenants." Paul tells the Ephesians that they were "alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise (Eph. 2:12). He tells the Galatians that Sarah and Hagar are two covenants. Hagar corresponds to the... | |
 | Lester McCracken - 2007 - 178 pages
...made in the flesh by human hands - remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have... | |
 | 482 pages
...Ephesians 2:12 reminds us that all men without Christ "were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world." Jesus characterized the Jews who rejected him as evil,... | |
 | Rodney Clapp - 2008 - 186 pages
...writers of the New Testament, Gentiles (non-Jews) outside this covenantal relationship were "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12). We Gentiles were men and women without a... | |
 | William Barclay - 2008 - 360 pages
...uncircumcision" by those who are called "the circumcision" ... at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise' (2:11-12). Paul urges that they 'no longer live as the Gentiles live' (4:17). The fact that they were... | |
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... remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 
