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that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
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Verse 6. That the Gentiles should be coheirs, and so forth This is the mystery which was heretofore unknown, and now revealed. This is what the greatest part of the Jews could never be brought to believe, that the Gentiles should be equally sharers with them of God’s promises and blessings. They were strangely scandalized that Saint Peter should receive Cornelius, an uncircumcised man, into the same communion. On the like account they persecuted Saint Paul. Witham.
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