 | Schools - 1799 - 198 pages
...termed the very " Ida of the intellect," were yet incompetent to discover " our being's end and aim"—" were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world," Eph. ii. 12. Not only were they unable to "find out God," but,... | |
 | 1869
...Abraham. As for the rest of mankind, St. Paul's description of the Ephesians might be applied to them all. "Ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." (chap. ii. 12.) Here, then, we begin to see something like an... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 476 pages
...us from this present evil world, Gal. 1.4. And we are never to forget our former ftate ; " remember that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world," Eph. ii. 12. The meditation of this tends to humble us the more... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...because they be : ing out of the covenant, have no right unto the seals of the covenant. Eph. ii. \'2. At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. Q. 2. May not... | |
 | Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pages
...who are called uncircumcision, by that which is called circumcision in. the flesh, made by hands ; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were afar off", are... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...are called Uncircumcision, by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands. II. 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers jrom the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. That, at that... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1809 - 636 pages
...conceived; as is evident from the description of it given by the Apostie in his address to the Gentiles, " At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." Eph. ii. 12. They were strangers and foreigners, as if they belonged... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 290 pages
...privilege, greater than the world can give, and such as the world cannot take away, even peace with God : " But now in Christ " Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made " nigh by the blood of Christ: for he is our peace." Eph. ii. 13, 14. He was constituted and appoint'ed by... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1810 - 236 pages
...are called the .Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world."J They had been, in their external situation, under vastly greater... | |
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 pages
...favourable to all men. Formerly the gentiles were far off in a sense in which the Jews were nigh: the former were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and^withotit God in the world: the latter had God's anointed prophets and priests among them,... | |
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by hands; 12 That at that time ye -were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off... 
