Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the word . . . sent unto the children of Israel—for to them (he would have them distinctly know) the Gospel was first preached, even as the facts of it took place on the special theater of the ancient economy.
preaching peace by Jesus Christ—the glorious sum of all Gospel truth (I Corinthians 1:20-22).
he is Lord of all—exalted to embrace under the canopy of His peace, Jew and Gentile alike, whom the blood of His Cross had cemented into one reconciled and accepted family of God (Ephesians 2:13-18).
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