13. You had no share in all that, you had no hope, no God. But now, not in the world where this unfriended condition was your lot, but in Christ Jesus you that were “far off” have become “near” (Is. lvii. 19) and the blood of the Christ accomplished it.
14. For that “peace” of which the prophet speaks is Christ; he has made one where there were two before, he has removed the barrier,
15. he has abolished the hate, cancelled the laws, commandments and decrees supporting the old caste, and all this he did in his own flesh that in himself he might make those two contraries one, and make out of that old discord one new man, making “a peace,”
16. making a reconciliation of the two in a body reconciled to God.
17. And where did he do all this but on the cross where the hate was nailed and slain? And so he came, when the reconciliation was made, and preached peace, “peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near” (Is. lvii. 19).
18. Thus through him is the way of approach for both of us in one Spirit, that way which approaches the eternal Father.
19. Your condition then is no longer one of alienation, strangeness, subjection. You have received the citizenship of the saints, you are members of a household, the house of God;