Ephesians 2:16 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 2:16

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

KJV

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

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Commentary

4 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book V (220)

"For to create in Himself of twain," for He who had made is also the same who creates (just as we have found it stated above: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus"), "one new man, making peace" (really new, and really man-no phantom-but new, and newly born of a virgin by the Spirit of God), "that He might reconcile both unto God" (even the God whom both races had offended-both Jew and Gentile), "in one body," says he, "having in it slain the enmity by the cross."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And hath broken down the middle wall of partition - Alluding to that wall of old, which separated the court of Israel from the court of the gentiles. Such a wall was the ceremonial law, which Christ had now taken away.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That he might reconcile both - in one body - That the Jews and Gentiles, believing on the Lord Jesus, might lay aside all their causes of contention, and become one spiritual body, or society of men, influenced by the Spirit, and acting according to the precepts of the Gospel. Having slain the enmity thereby - Having, by his death upon the cross, made reconciliation between God and man, and by his Spirit in their hearts removed the enmity of their fallen, sinful nature.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

By His being slain, He slew it (compare Heb 2:14). thereby--Greek, "therein"; "in" or "by the cross," that is, His crucifixion (Col 2:15).

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀποκαταλλάξῃ	apokatallaxē	He may reconcile	G604 →
τοὺς	tous	<the>	G3588 →
ἀμφοτέρους	amphoterous	both	G297 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἑνὶ	heni	one	G1520 →
σώματι	sōmati	body	G4983 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	to God	G2316 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
σταυροῦ	staurou	cross	G4716 →
ἀποκτείνας	apokteinas	having slain	G615 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἔχθραν	echthran	hostility	G2189 →
ἐν	en	by	G1722 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	it;	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 2:14
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
leads to
- Ephesians 2:14–16
  For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
- Isaiah 44:22
  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Isaiah 43:25
  I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Hebrews 8:13
  By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
Through
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:18–19
  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?