stance, Paul uses it of the
healing of hostility between Jew and Gentile. He says Jesus has come "and
broken down the middle wall of partition and reconciled Jew and Gentile in
one body," by which he means the hostility is ended. Not that every Jew and
every Gentile will be saved, but they will be able to live in harmony; that
is his point. In 1 Corinthians 7, the apostle says that husbands and wives
are to be "reconciled" to one another. There may be some husbands and wives
here who need to have their host