Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ephesians 2:14

"For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition," — Ephesians 2:14 (ASV)

Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

So making Jews and Gentiles one.

For he is our peace,

Peace with God, peace with our own conscience, peace with all mankind we find in Christ.

Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

There is no longer the division between Jews and Gentiles.

For he is our peace,

Paul cannot do without Christ, you see. He will bring him in everywhere.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

There are no privileges now for the Jew from which the Christian is shut out, for Christ hath made both one. There is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision now, for all believers are one in Christ Jesus.

For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (Ephesians 2:14).

Christ is peace between Jew and Gentile – peace between both of them and their God.

I have heard of a poor bricklayer who, when at work on a scaffold, fell from a great height and was taken up, dying. They sent for a minister of the gospel, who began addressing him in terms like these: "My dear man, you are evidently near death, and therefore, I exhort you to make your peace with God." The minister knew very little of this, compared with what the poor bricklayer knew, for, opening his eyes, the bricklayer said, "Make my peace with God, sir? That I could not do, but, I thank God, it was made for me in the everlasting covenant of grace in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ eighteen hundred years ago, and I have no peace to make."

It is peace already made, and we have only to accept it, for he is our peace who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.