Colossians 3:1
Here begins the second or the moral part of this epistle. --- _If you be risen, &c. The remaining part of this epistle has no great difficulties, but excellent instructions, as that to the Ephesians. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Here begins the second or the moral part of this epistle. --- _If you be risen, &c. The remaining part of this epistle has no great difficulties, but excellent instructions, as that to the Ephesians. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Your members,...fornication, uncleanness, &c. He considers man's body as made up of sins and sinful inclinations. (Witham) --- It is not to bring back Judaism we practise abstinences and fasts, nor with the same motive as the Jews, but to accomplish the precepts of mortifying the irregular desires... [ Continue Reading ]
_The children of unbelief are either those who perished in Noe's [Noah's] flood, for St. Peter in his epistle give them this title, or they are the inhabitants of Chanaan [Canaan], whom Josue [Joshua] exterminated; for these also are called children of unbelief, in the epistle to the Hebrews, and th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blasphemy. [1] It may here signify either the sin of blasphemy against God, or speaking ill of our neighbour by detraction, calumnies, affronts, &c. See St. John Chrysostom. (Witham) --- Now that you live in God, with Jesus Christ, quit not only the above shameful crimes, but also these sins, which... [ Continue Reading ]
_According to the image of him who created him. We are created in the image of God, inasmuch as our souls are spiritual and immortal, but here we are put in mind to imitate God by sanctity and justice, as God is holy and the fountain of justice. (Witham) --- The image or resemblance of our Creator w... [ Continue Reading ]
_Where, or in which state, when we put on the new man by sanctity and grace, God makes no distinction betwixt Jew and Gentile, &c. (Witham) --- In the Church of Christ God makes no exception of persons; all are called to the marriage feast, whether Jews (formerly the most favoured people of God) or... [ Continue Reading ]
_Above all these things have charity, the love of God, and of your neighbour, which is the bond of perfection, the end of all virtues, which unites the hearts of all to God. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The peace of Christ rejoice: [2] reign, conquer, bear away the prize. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Exultet, _Greek: brabeueto, palmam referat._... [ Continue Reading ]
Employ yourselves in studying and reading the Scriptures; meditating on what our Saviour has done and suffered for you. It is a calumny of our enemies, that we forbid the reading of the Testament. But the Church, fearing lest the faithful should read to their own destruction what was ordained for th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let all be done for his honour and glory. See 1 Corinthians x. 31. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]