Delivered us from the power of
darkness - Darkness is here personified, and is represented as having power,
authority, and sway; all Jews and Gentiles, which had not embraced the Gospel,
being under this authority and power. And the apostle intimates here that
nothing less than the power of God can redeem a man from this darkness, or
prince of darkness, who, by means of sin and unbelief, keeps men in ignorance,
vice, and misery.
Translated us into the kingdom,
etc - He has thoroughly changed our state, brought us out of the dark region of
vice and impiety, and placed us in the kingdom under the government of his dear
Son, the Son of his love; the person whom, in his infinite love, he has given
to make an atonement for the sin of the world.
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