peculiarities. It seems never to have entered into any human mind until the day of Pentecost, that the theo- cracy itself was to be abolished, and a new form of religion was to be introduced, designed and adapted equally for all mankind, under which the distinction between Jew and Gentile was to be done away. It was this catholicity of the Gospel which was the ex- panding and elevating revelation made to the apostles, and which raised them from sectarians to Christians.
The Gentiles are fellow-hews. They have the same right to the inheritance as the Jews. The inheritance is all the benefits of the covenant of grace; the know- ledge of the truth, all church privileges, justification, ‘adoption, and sanctification; the indwelling of the Spirit, and life everlasting; an inheritance so great that simply to comprehend it requires divine assist- ance, and elevates the soul to the confines of heaven. Hence Paul prays (1, 17. 18), that God would give the Ephesians the Spirit of revelation that they might know what is the riches of the glory of the inherit- ance to which they had been called.
They are σύσσωμωα ; i. 6. they are constituent por- tions of the body of Christ; as nearly related to him, and as much partakers of his life as their Jewish brethren. The hand is not in the body by permission of the eye, nor the eye by permission of the hand. Neither is the Gentile in the church by courtesy of the Jews, nor the Jew by courtesy of the Gentiles. They are one body.
What in the preceding terms is presented figuratively