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Ephesians 2:14The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
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14 Αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν, ὁ ποιήσας τὰ ἀμφότερα ἓν καὶ τὸ μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ λύσας,
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Ephesians 2:14The Bible in Living English
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14 For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke away the fencing-off party-wall,
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Ephesians 2:14American Standard Version
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14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
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Ephesians 2:14The Emphasized Bible
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14 He in fact is our peace—Who made both one And the enclosing middle-wall took down
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Ephesians 2:14King James Version
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14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
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EphesiansWatch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
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2:14 w85 11/15 30; w82 12/1 9-10; g78 7/22 13; w74 619; po 164-165; hu 18-19; g72 11/22 7; ad 255, 1585; g69 8/8 14; im 280; w64 199; w62 50; w60 495; w59 750; nh 177; w44 57; w34 121; jh 186; g34 11/7 93
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EphesiansResearch Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
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Ephesians Study Notes—Chapter 2New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
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the two groups: That is, Jews and non-Jews.—Eph 2:11.
the wall in between: Lit., “the middle wall.” This is likely an allusion to the wall in the first-century temple in Jerusalem that “fenced . . . off,” or prevented, the Gentile worshippers from entering the inner courtyards. These courtyards were open only to Jews. According to the Mishnah, that wall was a latticed barrier called the Soreg. (See App. B11.) Josephus wrote that the wall was three cubits (1.3 m; 4.3 ft) high and that it carried signs in Greek and Latin warning non-Jews not to pass beyond it under penalty of death. When Paul wrote this letter, he was in prison because he was accused of taking a non-Jew from Ephesus beyond this wall. So the Ephesians may have been acquainted with it. (Ac 21:28-31; 28:30, 31; Eph 3:1) The literal wall in Jerusalem was still standing. So when Paul spoke of “the wall” being destroyed, he was referring, not to the literal wall, but to the Law covenant, which divided Jews from Gentiles. That symbolic wall was abolished some 30 years earlier on the basis of Christ’s death.
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