Reference: Access
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The word occurs only in Ro 5:2; Eph 2:18; 3:12, and the question (regarding which commentators are much divided) is whether it ought to be understood in the trans. sense as 'introduction,' the being brought near by another, or in the Intrans. sense as 'access' or personal approach. The trans. sense is most in keeping with the ordinary use of the vb. prosag
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who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.
who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.
for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.
for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.
by whom we have freedom of access to God, with confidence, by faith in him.
by whom we have freedom of access to God, with confidence, by faith in him.
who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. for we have
Wherefore, my brethren, since by virtue of the blood of Jesus we have the liberty of entring into the holy of holies,
for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,