Now therefore you are no more strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
All Commentaries on Ephesians 2:19 Go To Ephesians 2
Gaius Marius Victorinus
AD 400
What are we to understand by “fellow citizens with the saints?” It implies a distinction between citizens and saints. But if this is so, who are the saints and who are the citizens? Saints refers to the apostles, prophets and all who formerly experienced God or spoke divinely through the Spirit dwelling within them. They in some way beheld God’s presence, as did Abraham, either through the flesh, through the Spirit or through both flesh and Spirit, as with all the apostles. Those who have later believed in Christ without any such special means are “fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household.” .
