“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;”
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household — the status reversal: no longer xenoi kai paroikoi ('foreigners and strangers') but sympolitai ('fellow citizens') and oikeioi tou theou ('members of God's household'), full belonging in the covenant community.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 2:19
He sent not, says the Apostle, by the hand of another, nor did He announce these tidings to us by means of any other, but Himself did it in His own person. He sent not Angel nor Archangel on the mission, because to repair so many and vast mischiefs and to declare what had been wrought was in the power of none other, but required His own coming. The Lord then took upon Himself the rank of a servant, nay, almost of a minister, “and came, and preached peace to you,” says he,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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