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For he is our peace; i.e. Peace-maker, or Mediator of peace, both between God and man, and between Jew and Gentile. He is called
our peace, as elsewhere our righteousness, redemption, salvation. God is said to reconcile us, 2Co_5:19, but Christ only to be our peace.
Who hath made both one; i.e. one body, or one people, or one new man, Eph_3:15.
And hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having taken away the ceremonial law, which was as a wall of separation between Jew and Gentile, as appears in the next verse. It seems to be an allusion to that wall of the temple which parted between the court of the people into which the Jews came, and the outmost court, that of the Gentiles, who, when they came to worship, might not come into the other court, and were excluded by this wall.