in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:

but now you who were formerly at a distance, are brought near by the death of Christ Jesus.

Therefore now, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and domesticks of God's family,

having revealed to me the secret, I now mention'd in short,

which preceeding was not discover'd to men, as now it is to his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit; to wit,

that the manifold wisdom of God, in ordering his heavenly kingdom, might by his church be now made known, to princes and magistrates,

Now unto him that is able to do infinitely above what we ask or comprehend, by his power operating in us,

now his having ascended, what does it mean, but that he had descended into the lower parts of the earth?

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light: