 | 1842 - 982 pages
...by faith that is in me." — Acts xxvi. 17, 18. " That at that time," saith Paul to the Ephesians, "ye 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. " We are of God," says John, " and the whole world... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...the Britons our predecessors, before the Christian faith was preached unto them. " At that time they were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." They were foul idolaters, who, from misapplying that undeniable truth... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 534 pages
...was preaching to a few poor people. The text on which the preacher discoursed was Ephes. ii. IS. " But now in Christ Jesus, ye, who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ." It was from the night, on which he heard a plain, but what was, in his experience, a powerful... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition... | |
 | Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 pages
...who are called 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, but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...discovered in ignorance, as we learn from Paul, describing the natural condition of the Ephesians, " 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). It is not affirmed they were without the natural knowledge... | |
 | 1847 - 798 pages
...in sin (Eph. ii.), alienated and enemies in our mind by wicked works (Col. i. 20), " That at time we 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). Surely none can be in a worse position than this in the... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...might " bring them into the glorious liberty of the Children of God." In their natural state, " they were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, they who were sometimes afar off are made nigh... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 636 pages
...Now all mankind may be cast into two ranks or orders. For, •first, there are those who are yet ' without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world ;'d such we mean as are either negatively orprivatively infidels, or unbelievers... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 524 pages
...of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition... | |
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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: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the... 
