Verse 14 begins, “For He Himself is our peace.” The emphatic use of He shows that it is Christ and no other. To say Christ is our peace, rather than achieved our peace stresses the truth that it is Christ in His own person who embodies our peace with God and between Jew and Gentile. It was He who by the sacrifice of Himself satisfied fully the righteousness of God and made possible the condition of peace instead of wrath. The
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