Each Lesson-Sermon published in the Christian Science Quarterly— Bible Lessons is designed to be complete in itself. Its Bible references (King James Version) are corroborated and explained by passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. These Bible Notes are offered by The Christian Science Journal as indications of the possibilities for individual research.
Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Eph. 2:19) "Strangers" refers to transient foreign visitors without rights, and "foreigners" are resident aliens in the community who enjoy only temporary and limited privileges. Peake notes that the inclusion of the Gentiles in the promises of God made the Christian Church distinct from its Jewish roots; the Mosaic law was racial and exclusive, but now in Christ the wall of divisiveness is broken down (see Eph. 2:11-15; Col. 3:9-11). By their inclusion as "fellowcitizens" the Gentile converts now have equal rights with the family, or "household," of God, and the historic community of Israel chosen by God as His people now is to embrace all mankind.
The people that walked in darkness (Isa. 9:2)
