Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Rather, make "enmity" an apposition to "the middle wall of partition"; "Hath broken down the middle wall of partition (not merely as English Version, 'between us,' but also between all men and God), to wit, the enmity (Romans 8:7) by His flesh" (compare Ephesians 2:16; Romans 8:3).
the law of commandments contained in--Greek, "the law of the commandments (consisting) in ordinances." This law was "the partition" or "fence," which embodied the expression of the "enmity" (the "wrath" of God against our sin, and our enmity to Him, Ephesians 2:3) (Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20; Romans 7:10-11; Romans 8:7). Christ has in, or by, His crucified flesh, abolished it, so far as its condemning and enmity-creating power is concerned (Colossians 2:14), substituting for it the law of love, which is the everlasting spirit of the law, and which flows from the realization in the soul of His love in His death for us. Translate what follows, "that He might make the two (Jews and Gentiles) into one new man." Not that He might merely reconcile the two to each other, but incorporate the two, reconciled in Him to God, into one new man; the old man to which both belonged, the enemy of God, having been slain in His flesh on the cross. Observe, too, ONE new man; we are all in God's sight but one in Christ, as we are but one in Adam [ALFORD].
making peace--primarily between all and God, secondarily between Jews and Gentiles; He being "our peace." This "peace-making" precedes its publication (Ephesians 2:17).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 2:9
Song of Solomon 8:9
Song of Solomon 8:10
Isaiah 53:5
Isaiah 56:3
Haggai 2:9
Zechariah 2:4
Zechariah 6:13
Zechariah 6:15
Acts 10:36-38
Romans 11:22-23
Galatians 3:28
Galatians 6:15
Galatians 6:16
Ephesians 2:2
Ephesians 2:14
Ephesians 3:1
Colossians 1:22
Colossians 2:14
Hebrews 9:19
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