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  • Ephesians 2:14
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 14 For he is our peace,+ the one who made the two groups one+ and destroyed the wall in between that fenced them off.+

  • Ephesians 2:14
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 14 Αὐτὸς He γάρ for ἐστιν is ἡ the εἰρήνη peace ἡμῶν, of us, ὁ the (one) ποιήσας having made τὰ the (things) ἀμφότερα both ἓν one καὶ and τὸ the μεσότοιχον middle wall τοῦ of the φραγμοῦ fence λύσας, having loosed,

  • Ephesians 2:14
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 14 For he is our peace,+ he who made the two parties*+ one+ and destroyed the wall+ in between* that fenced+ them off.

  • Ephesians 2:14
    The Bible in Living English
    • 14 For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke away the fencing-off party-wall,

  • Ephesians 2:14
    American Standard Version
    • 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

  • Ephesians 2:14
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 14 He in fact is our peace—Who made both one And the enclosing middle-wall took down

  • Ephesians 2:14
    King James Version
    • 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

  • Ephesians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 2:14 it-1 359-360, 945; it-2 213, 220, 542, 762, 1080, 1165; w08 7/1 21; w97 11/15 28; w88 5/15 13; w87 11/1 13

  • Ephesians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 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

  • Ephesians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 2:14

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 359-360, 945

      Insight, Volume 2, pp. 213-220, 542, 762, 1080, 1165

      The Watchtower,

      7/1/2008, p. 21

      11/15/1997, p. 28

      5/15/1988, p. 13

      11/1/1987, p. 13

  • Ephesians Study Notes—Chapter 2
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 2:14

      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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