...nature the children of wrath, even as others;" " and were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise." Now this is called a state of death: " and you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins."...

...from among them. ' The strangers shall submit themselves unto me ;' the nations who were ' 'aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise,' either cordially submitted to the sceptre of Christ, or at least dissembled their hostility, and yielded...

...without all knowledge of the Messiah, or any expectation of deliverance or salvation by him b ; aliens from the commonwealth of Israel °, and strangers to the covenants of promise d, not having any hope of any such thing, and living in the world without having the true God for your...

...12 remember, I say, that ye [in'] that time were without Christ, being aliens from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. 13 But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who formerly were far off, are brought...

...goats ; for his people, friends and brethren, to the exclusion of those who remain enemies, and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise; for his seed, children, bride, and body, to the exclusion of the seed of the serpent, the generations...

...without Christ;" that is, without any knowledge, promise, or expectation of the Messiah ; " being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise ;" ie we were not so much as proselytes to the Jewish religion, nor members of the Jewish church, and...

...idln unto God. Neither are they without Christ ; for they are chosen in Aim : nor are they " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise." But they are " fellow-citiZens with the saints, and the household of God." Therefore Christ died not...

...children in the way they should go ? Must the church always look to this corrupt world, and to those who are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, for her standards of 111:11111. is, and for maxims of moial practice? Rather let us attend to the Apostolic...

...of that olive-tree from which the Jews were broken off; and the Ephesians, said once to be " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise" are, as converts to Christianity, congratulated as " fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household...

...were never under that yoke at any time, but were those afar off, and without the lam, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, —and whose sin, misery, and mortality, were entailed on them by the paradisaic dispensation, and...