From: Numberup@worldnet.att.net
Date: Sat Aug 07 1999 - 14:27:57 EDT
TO MESOTOICON TOU FRAGMOU = THN ECQRAN = TON NOMON. Paul is here using the divisions
into which the Temple court was divided, no doubt particularly the wall that
separated the Court of the Gentiles from the inner court for Jews alone, to symbolize
the features of the Mosaic law which likewise divided Jew from Gentile. This
division was in turn a source of "enmity," physical and spiritual, between Jew and
Gentile, an "enmity" which was done away with by the peace of the Christ who
"fulfilled" the Law, bringing Jew and Gentile into one religious body: the Christian
congregation.
Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org
Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
> Dear friends,
> Could you please help me in translating Eph 2:14-15:
> 14 AUTOS GAR ESTIN H EIRHNH hHMWN O POIHSAS TA AMFOTERA EN KAI TO
> MESOTOICON TOU FRAGMOU LUSAS
> 15 THN ECQRAN EN TH SARKI AUTOU TON NOMON TWN ENTOLWN EN DOGMASIN
> KATARGHSAS...
>
> I am specially interested what is the connection between the middle wall,
> the enmity and the law.
>
> Is this as in AV:
> Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
> contained in ordinances... (The law is hostility)
>
> or as in NIV:
> ... who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing
> wall of hostility... (The wall is hostility)
>
> Dmitriy Reznik
>
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