Where — In which case, it matters not what a man is externally, whether Jew or gentile, circumcised, or uncircumcised, barbarian, void of all the advantages of education, yea, Scythian, of all barbarians most barbarous. But Christ is in all that are thus renewed, and is all things in them and to them.
Verse 11. _WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW_] In which new creation no inquiry is made what _nation_ the persons belonged to, or from what _ancestry_ they had sprung, whether in _Judea_ or _Greece...
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW - See this fully explained in the notes at Galatians 3:28. The meaning here is, that all are on a level; that there is no distinction of nation in the church; that...
III. THE PRACTICAL RESULTS: LIVING AS RISEN WITH CHRIST (3-4) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The life hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1)_ 2. The contrast: The old man and the new man (Colossians 3:5) 3. Mani...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE RISEN WITH CHRIST. Those who are risen with Christ must aspire to the things above, in the region of Christ's heavenly session at God's right hand. Their minds must be set, not on...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
NEITHER. App-105. JEW, Sc. Compare Galatians 1:3, Gal 1:28. BARBARIAN. See Acts 28:2. SCYTHIAN. Regarded by the ancients as the lowest type of barbarians. BOND. App-190. ALL, he. See...
_where_ "_in_" "_the new Man_." This phrase is a further suggestion of the inner reference to Christ as the New Man which we find in this passage and the Ephesian parallel. Certainly the language of _...
5–17. _The individual life_ Colossians 3:5-11. Negatively (together with a general description of the new life), for sins are inconsistent with the new self. Colossians 3:12-17. Positively, especial...
5–4:1. _Practical duties_ Colossians 3:5-17, in the individual life; Colossians 3:18_ to_ Colossians 4:1, in the social relations of a household....
ὍΠΟΥ. (1) Probably this refers to the εἰκών, the image in which the new man will eventually be. In that future perfected likeness to God there will be no Greek, etc., but Christ will be all and in all...
ΌΠΟΥ (G3699) где. ΠΕΡΙΤΟΜΉ (G4061) обрезание. ΆΚΡΟΒΥΣΤΊΑ (G203) крайняя плоть, необрезание, ΒΆΡΒΑΡΟΣ (G915) варвар. Изначально это слово обозначало человека, который говорит непонятно, нечленоразде...
DISCOURSE: 2184 CHRIST IS ALL Colossians 3:11. _Christ is all, and in all_. MEN are ever ready to value themselves upon their natural endowments, their civil distinctions, or their religious privileg...
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK, &C.— St. Paul's main design in this Epistle was, to establish the Colossians in theiradherence to the gospel mystery of the calling of the Gentiles, and maintaining their...
9. LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER; SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DOINGS, _Translation and Paraphrase_ 9. (And furthermore) do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old...
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. WHERE - `Wherein;' namely, in the sphere of the renewed ma...
__ Doctrinal Correction 15 Not only is the believer exempt from the authority of the apostles of the Circumcision, but, in spirit, he is beyond the reach of all human jurisdiction. Even before His r...
3:11 everything, (f-18) Lit. 'all things,' as 1 Corinthians 15:28 ....
IS] RV 'cannot be.' SCYTHIAN] the extreme barbarian....
THE CHRISTIAN'S RISEN LIFE AND THE DUTIES IT ENTAILS 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. PARAPHRASE] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only, but...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 HOW TO LIVE YOUR NEW LIFE WITH CHRIST V1 You hav...
(10-17) In these verses we have the corresponding positive exhortation, connected with the idea of resurrection with Christ, through which we put on the new man, holding Christ to be our all in all. O...
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER... — This passage naturally suggests comparison with Galatians 3:28. “There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor female: for ye ar...
[5. Practical Exhortation, General. (1) NEGATIVE. — To MORTIFY THE OLD MAN, by fleeing from — (_a_) _Uncleanness and lust_ (Colossians 3:5); (_b_) _Wrath and malice_ (Colossians 3:8); (_c_) _Fa...
CHAPTER 3 THE NEW NATURE WROUGHT OUT IN NEW LIFE Colossians 3:9 (R.V.) IN previous chapter we were obliged to break the close connection between these words and the preceding. They adduce a reason f...
_Cf._ Galatians 3:28. He has been speaking of sins inconsistent with brotherly love, anger and falsehood. Such sins are incompatible with Christianity, which has abolished even those deep distinctions...
RESURRECTION WITH CHRIST MUST BE COMPLETED BY PARTICIPATION IN HIS HEAVENLY LIFE, WHICH THOUGH AT PRESENT CONCEALED, WILL NOT ALWAYS REMAIN SO. THIS LIFE WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN DEMANDS THE DEATH OF THE...
SEEKING THE “THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE” Colossians 3:1 Let us repeat the glorious truth, which was doubtless the heart of Paul's teaching, that our old nature has been nailed in Christ to the Cross, and...
The believer is to "seek the things... above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must be...
Changing Clothes Since the Colossian brethren were dead to the world in Christ, Paul said they should put sin out of their lives. Anger and wrath both describe passions aroused when one is insulted or...
(9) Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all. (9) He tells them again that the Gospel does not refe...
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...
(5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (6) For which things' sake the wra...
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
_ALL AND IN ALL_ ‘Christ is all, and in all.’ Colossians 3:11 How little can we see of Christ but a bare and faint outline! Why, it will take all eternity to exhaust that subject; it will take all...
11._Where there is neither Jew_. He has added this intentionally, that he may again draw away the Colossians from ceremonies. For the meaning of the statement is this, that Christian perfection does n...
Now begins the direct exhortations founded on the truth that has been developed, and adapted to the state in which the Colossians were; that is, viewed as risen with Christ, but not sitting in heavenl...
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW,.... That is, either in Christ, after whose image the new man is created; see Galatians 5:6 or in the new man, and with respect to regeneration; or in the whole b...
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond _nor_ free: but Christ _is_ all, and in all. Ver. 11. _Christ is all, and in all_] Not only in the hea...
_But now ye also_ Being converted to the pure, peaceable, and devout religion of the Lord Jesus; _put off_ Mortify; _all these_ corrupt passions and lusts; _anger_, &c. See on Ephesians 4:31; _blasphe...
GREEK NOR JEW-BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, BOND NOR FREE; bondmen and freemen, and men of all descriptions who are born of the Spirit, have equal rights and are entitled to equal privileges in the church of C...
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW, CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION, BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, BOND NOR FREE; BUT CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL. The apostle here shows how the life of the believers in and wit...
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN AND PUTTING ON THE NEW....
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW (vs.1-11) We have seen some practical exhortations mingled with the doctrine of this epistle. Now this chapter begins what is mainly practical instruction based on the t...
Mortifying the Old Nature - 3:5-11 5THEREFORE PUT TO DEATH YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE ON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY. When you see the...
WHERE THERE CANNOT BE GREEK AND JEW, CIRCUMCISION AND UNCIRCUMCISION, BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, BONDMAN, FREEMAN; BUT CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL. 'WHERE THERE CANNOT BE' -'All racial bigotry..snobbery is...
5-11 It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Continual oppo...
He prevents the reasoning of those, who did not neglect regeneration, and place religion in more externals, showing that in the new man, or true sanctification, and real Christianity, there was suffic...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, "And He Himself is all things; "[44] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Masters, render to yo...
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‘Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but Christ is all in all.' Once likeness to Christ becomes the objective all these divisio...
Colossians 3:11. WHERE, in the region of the new creation, in contrast with that in which the old man dwelt, there is not (‘not only does the distinction not exist, but it _cannot_ exist;' Lightfoot)...
2. _General Exhortations_. We find here, though in much briefer form, substantially the same exhortations contained in Ephesians 4:17 to Ephesians 5:21. The section may be thus divided: (1.) Negative...
III. HORTATORY PART: LIVE AS THOSE SHOULD LIVE WHO WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST THE HEAD. (1.) Fellowship with the Exalted Christ the motive for the new life; Colossians 3:1-4. (Transitive paragraph.) (2....
WHERE (οπου). In this "new man" in Christ. Cf. Galatians 3:28.THERE CANNOT BE (ουκ εν). Εν is the long (original) form of εν and εστιν is to be understood. "There does not exist." This is the idea...
Colossians 3:11 Christ All, and in all. I. Christ is the substance or fulness of "all" things that which really goes to make the being of everything. Let us pause a little, and help ourselves to begi...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God._ Oh! how often we need to be called to this, for the flesh is grove...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God._ Your Lord and Master has gone up to heaven. You profess that he re...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth._ Th...
CONTENTS: Believer's union with Christ here and hereafter, and the fruit of such union. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The true believer is united with Christ in a union which can never b...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ,_ above the darkness and torpor of the present world, as in Colossians 2:20, live in conformity to your hope, by seeking _those things that are above._...
AS A RESULT. Differences of race, national origin, social status, etc., loose their meaning in the one who dies to the world and becomes united with Christ. No one is excluded from the blessings that...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:11 HERE THERE IS NOT GREEK AND JEW. There are no distinctions of status or race among the new covenant people (see Galatians 3:28).
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Colossians 3:9_ The New Spiritual Nature. In the primitive Church it was customary for the new converts, after putting aside their heathenish vestments, to array t...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 3:1 SECTION VII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE. The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more...
So then, If then you are risen with Christ [If you are risen with Christ... going back to buried with Christ in baptism, now risen with Him], seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth a...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 14:11;...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS Colossians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Seven pairs of things: 1. Things above, and things on the earth (Colossians 3:2). 2. Things seen, and things not seen (2 Cori
WHERE, that is, in which state of renovation, or under the present gospel-dispensation, there is found with God no respect to any man's person or nation, as before there was under the legal dispensati...