Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:19

19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers, and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints , and of the houshold of God .

Such are they that may dwell in a City, but are not Free of it. He means the same as v. 12. they were not now aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, &c.

Members of the same spiritual Society or Corporation with other Saints, Patriarchs, Prophets, &c. The Church of God is compared to a City, of which every Saint is a Member or Free-man, Phil. 3.20.

The Church is here compared to an House, as 1. Tim. 3.15. They are said to be of the Houshold that belong to it, but especially the Children. Among Men, Servants are counted Domesticks, but with God none but his Children.

Marginal references: Heb. 12.2[illegible: 1 letter] ▪ 23.; Gal. 6.10▪