Verses 19-22 speak of a building. There we find mention of "the foundation", the

chief corner stone", "the whole building", "a holy temple", and "a habitation of God".

These references lend weight to the translations, "Fellow-citizens of the holiest of all", or

"heaven itself". Now Phil. 3: 20 declares that "our citizenship exists (as a fact) in

heaven", and seeing that "fellow-citizens" in Eph. 2: 19 is sumpolitai, and the word

"conversation" is politeuma, the connection is plain.

In Eph. 4: 12 we have another passage that yields to investigation, viz., "for the

perfecting of the saints". Here again ton hagion, while referring to saved persons, may

refer to them in their capacity as a holy temple for the Lord. This is strengthened by the

contextual reference to Psa. 68: 18, where we read:--

The word "dwell" here is shaken, "tabernacle". Here, then, in Eph. 4: we read of the

re-adjusting of the most holy place, for the most holy place no longer was found on earth,

but in the heavenly places. So Col. 1: 12, "giving thanks unto the Father, Who made us

meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the most holy place, heaven itself--in the

light". It is no wonder that the opening words of Ephesians are "Blessed be God", or of

Colossians, "We give thanks" for this high and heavenly glory for which the Father has

"made us meet".

"To make meet", hikanoo, is derived from hikano, to reach or attain, and has the

meaning "to make sufficient, to fit, or to qualify". In II Cor. 3: 6 it occurs in the

expression, "Who also made us able ministers". In II Cor. 3: 5 Paul had said, "not that

we are sufficient (hikanos) of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our

sufficiency (hikanotes) is of God". Hikanos is translated "worthy" in five places, e.g.,

"Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear" (Matt. 3: 11). Once in the N.T. and many times

in the LXX it is translated "enough" in the phrase, "It is enough". In Acts 17: 9 we

meet the expression, "and when they had taken security of Jason", where the Greek reads,

to hikanon. The Latin equivalent for this word in Roman Law is satisdatio, bail or surety

(See pp. 145-151 of Volume XIX).

We are sufficient because He is sufficient. We are made meet through His meetness,

we are accepted in the Beloved, and in Him every requirement has been fully met. This

full acceptance, this sufficiency for the share of the inheritance of the holiest of all, is "in

the light". This finds its complement later in the chapter in the words of verse 22, "In His

sight", and putting the two passages together we shall see wherein the "meetness"