Commonwealth
Commonwealth
komun-welth (, politea): Spoken of theocracy (Eph 2:12). The same word is rendered freedom, the King James Version; citizenship the Revised Version (British and American). Also in the sense of commonwealth in the Apocrypha (2 Macc 4:11; 8:17; 13:14); in the sense of citizenship (3 Macc 3:21, 23). See CITIZENSHIP.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Commonwealth
This is , and refers to the privileges of Israel Eph 2:12. Gentiles are declared to be strangers, outside the community of Israel; having no promises and no hope, and being without God in the world: fit objects for the grace of God.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Commonwealth
see CITIZENSHIP, No. 3.
see CITIZENSHIP, No. 4.