Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:16

16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Cross , having slain the enmity thereby .

Another end of Christ's abolishing the Ceremonial Law, viz. That he might reconcile both Iew and Gentile (all the Elect together) unto God: and in this respect especially he is our Peace.

Either both People united as one mystical Body, or rather this one Body here, is the Body of Christ offered up to God as the means of reconciliation, Col. 1.22.

i. e. by the Sacrifice of himself upon the Cross.

The enmity between God and Man by the expiation of Sin the cause of it. Of this enmity the Ceremonial Law was a Witness, Col. 2.14. aswell as a Sign of that between Iew and Gentile.

Marginal references: Rom. 6.6. Col. 2.14.; Or, in himself.