“For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;”
For Christ himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility — Christ is eirēnē ('peace,' the reconciliation of opposites); he poieō ('made') heis ('one') the duo ethnē ('two peoples'), destroying the mesotoichon ('middle wall') of hostility (echthra), likely referencing the Temple's outer court barrier separating Jew and Gentile, now demolished in Christ's flesh.
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