but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed (to them) that it is done away in Christ.
And you (did he make alive,) when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.