Separate from Christ (χωρις Χριστου). Ablative case with adverbial preposition χωρις, describing their former condition as heathen…

You were without Christ. You were without the knowledge of the Messiah. You had not heard of him; therefore, you had not embraced him. You…

This verse gives a dark and terrible picture of the former heathen condition of the Ephesians, intentionally contrasted in every point with the des…

Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember, that you being forme…

The apostle goes on to urge the Ephesians to recall what they once were in their heathen state. Four successive phrases depict their debit as compa…

That at that time you were without Christ. He now declares that the Ephesians had been excluded, not only from the outward badge, but from…

That at that time you were without Christ
Or separate from him: they were chosen in him and were preserved in him, a…

Christ and His covenant are the foundation of all the Christian's hopes. A sad and terrible description is here; but who is able to remove himself …