Ephesians 2:11

Ephesians 2:11.— From the foregoing doctrine, that God, of his free grace, according to his purpose from the beginning, had quickened and raised the convert Gentiles together with Christ, and seated them with him in his heavenly kingdom, that is, his gospel kingdom, St. Paul draws this inference to keep them from Judaizing, That though they, as was the state of the heathen world, were heretofore, by being uncircumcised, shut out from the kingdom of God, strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope, and without God in the world, yet they were by Christ,—who had taken away the ceremonial law, that wall of partition, which kept them in that state of distance and opposition,—now admitted to be the people of God, without being subjected to the law of Moses; and were with the Jews now created into one new man, or body of men; so that they were no longer to look on themselves as aliens, or as more remote from the kingdom of God than the Jews themselves: Ephesians 2:11. The terms circumcision and uncircumcision in the abstract, are put for persons circumcised or uncircumcised, as in Romans 2:26; Romans 3:30 and Romans 4:9.