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peace. Peace itself, objectively, and its Author (1Th_5:23. 2Th_3:16), to us and in us. Compare Isa_9:6; Isa_52:7; Isa_53:5; Isa_57:19. Mic_5:5. Hag_2:9. Zec_9:10. Luk_2:14. Joh_14:27; Joh_20:19, Joh_20:21, Joh_20:26.
hath = having.
both. Jews and Gentiles.
hath broken down = having destroyed. See 1Jn_3:8.
middle wall. Greek. mesotoichon. Only here. The type is seen in the stone palisade, about three cubits high, which separated the Court of the Gentiles from that of the Jews, to pass which was death to any Gentile. A notice, of which Josephus speaks, was found in 1871.
partition = the partition. Only here; Mat_21:33. Mar_12:1. Luk_14:23 (hedge).
between us. Omit.