hoping and waiting for Christ, the Messiah. Their apartness from Christ, their lack of all relation to Him—this is the first stroke in the dark picture of their former heathen life, and the four to which the eye is directed in the subsequent clauses all follow from that.” To understand the above most clearly, we should know that the word “Christ” is the English spelling of the Greek word christos (χριστος), which in turn is the translation of the Hebrew word for Messiah. The word “Christ” here is