“What are we to understand by "fellow citizens with the saints?" It implies a distinction between citizens and saints. But if this is so, who are the saints and who are the citizens? Saints refers to the apostles, prophets and all who formerly experienced God or spoke divinely through the Spirit dwelling within them. T…”
Gaius Marius Victorinus, 4th c. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.2.19
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19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
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17And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
— Ephesians 2:19 —
20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: