and ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus,

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the houshold of God;

which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs,

that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions;

Now to Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power operating in us,

Now this expression "He ascended" what does it mean, but that He descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

For ye were heretofore darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: