EPHESIANS—NOTE ON Ephesians 2:15 law. The additional mention of commandments and ordinances identifies this as the Mosaic law, which included many commandments that served to separate Israel from the other nations. Thus the law was a “dividing wall” (v. Ephesians 2:14) which Christ has abolished or rendered powerless both by fulfilling it and by removing believers from the law’s condemnation (see Matthew 5:17; Romans 8:1; Hebrews 9:11; Hebrews 10:1). The result is a new man, denoting a new human race under the second Adam (Christ), in whose image the Christian is re-created (1 Corinthians 15:45, 1 Corinthians 15:49; see also Ephesians 4:24).

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