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πολίτης. This is 'one having municipal rights, duties, and protection.' Paul was a 'citizen' of Tarsus. Acts 21: 39. Gentile believers are no longer strangers and foreigners to the privileges of the people of God, but are 'fellow-citizens' with the saints, and of the 'household of God.' Eph. 2: 19. The Christian's citizenship, πολίτευμα, is not on earth, but in heaven, Phil. 3: 20.