were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
abolishing the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, thus establishing peace,
Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.