Schaff's Bible Dictionary
PARTI'TION, MIDDLE WALL OF, is supposed to have reference to the wall in the temple which separated the court of Israel from the court of the Gentiles, Eph 2:14, and is figuratively used to denote whatever in their laws or customs separated the Jews from the Gentiles, and rendered the former any more the objects of divine favor than the latter. See Temple. The Greek Partridge.