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that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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The Root of Hopelessness
Commentators unanimously identify being "separate from Christ" as the core of the desperate condition described in this verse. All other losses—being cut off from God's people, His promises, and hope itself—stem from this primary separation. As John Calvin noted, to be without Christ is to have nothing but destruction, because He is the foundation of all God's promises and the only way to the Father.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Separate from Christ (χωρις Χριστου). Ablative case with adverbial preposition χωρις, describing their former condition as heathen…
19th Century
Anglican
This verse gives a dark and terrible picture of the former heathen condition of the Ephesians, intentionally contrasted in every point with the des…
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Baptist
And strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
That is where the whole Gentile world st…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
