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Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter You are correct. In fact it says strangers from the Covenants (plural) of Promise.
But Paul declares he was a child of wrath with them. I don't know of anyone who is in the covenant of Grace that would be considered a child of wrath. | Here you make the very point you are contradicting. Paul himself was a child of wrath BY NATURE, Eph. 2:3, and a child of promise BY COVENANT, ver. 12. |
He was made a child of the Promises. Not necessarily Promise. Remember Isreal had physical as well as spiritual promises. The Covenant of Grace is spiritual. He was a stranger to that until he was in Christ.