14. For that “peace” of which the prophet speaks is Christ; he has made one where there were two before, he has removed the barrier,
15. he has abolished the hate, cancelled the laws, commandments and decrees supporting the old caste, and all this he did in his own flesh that in himself he might make those two contraries one, and make out of that old discord one new man, making “a peace,”
16. making a reconciliation of the two in a body reconciled to God.
17. And where did he do all this but on the cross where the hate was nailed and slain? And so he came, when the reconciliation was made, and preached peace, “peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near” (Is. lvii. 19).