Paul's Rhetorical Analysis: Gentiles

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Therefore, the Apostle Paul exhorts his audience to recall their hopeless situation when they were separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise. According to Charles Hodges the writer intentionally writes a sequence of causes and effects. Gentiles are separated from Christ as a cause of their sins and the consequence is that they are alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise. In addition, the promise on what Paul mentions in the verse, Hodges affirms that this is the promise of a Redeemer who will save the nations. Furthermore, their new position in Christ brings Gentiles to a better position where they do not only have been redeemed