<p>2:17 <i>And he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were near</i>- He could remind the Ephesians that Christ personally &ldquo;came and preached peace to you&rdquo; after His resurrection, when it was in fact Paul who did this, motivated as he was by the resurrection of Christ. Paul, like us, was therefore the manifestation of the Lord Jesus when he preached Him. As the Lord is the light of the world, so we are the light of the world. All that is true of Him becomes true of those &quot;in Christ&quot; and we are to act accordingly. Those considered by Judaism 'far' Gentiles and 'near' Jews all needed the good news of peace preached to them. The idea of the Lord Jesus coming and preaching to people is found also in 1 Pet. 3:19 (see note there). The language of going, coming or moving is often used in relation to the preaching of a person &ndash; e.g. Mt. 9:13: &ldquo;<i>but go </i>and learn what that means&rdquo;. The Lord didn&rsquo;t intend that they literally went away somewhere. Likewise Dan. 12:4 and Hab. 2:2 bid those who understand God&rsquo;s word to &ldquo;run&rdquo; &ndash; not literally, but in response to the word preached. God Himself is spoken of as coming, descending etc. when He &lsquo;preaches&rsquo; to humanity (e.g. Gen. 11:5; Ex. 19:20; Num. 11:25; 2 Sam. 22:10). In Jer. 39:16, the imprisoned Jeremiah is told to &ldquo;go, tell Ebed-melech...&rdquo; a word from the Lord about him. Jeremiah couldn&rsquo;t have literally left prison to do so &ndash; but the idea is that a person encountering the Lord&rsquo;s word has as it were experienced the Lord &lsquo;going&rsquo; to him or her. And in this sense the message of the Lord Jesus (in its essence) could &lsquo;go&rsquo; to persons without Him physically going anywhere or even existing consciously at the time.</p>