Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Colossians 3:4
When Christ — The abruptness of the sentence surrounds us with sudden light. Our life — The fountain of holiness and glory. Shall appear — In the clouds of heaven.
When Christ — The abruptness of the sentence surrounds us with sudden light. Our life — The fountain of holiness and glory. Shall appear — In the clouds of heaven.
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Verse Colossians 3:4. _WHEN CHRIST_, WHO IS _OUR LIFE_] When Christ comes to judge the world, ye shall appear with him in his glory, and in an eternal state of blessedness....
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE - Notes, John 1:4; John 11:25, note. SHALL APPEAR - In the day when he shall come to judge the world. THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY -...
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...
If then you were raised with Christ, set your hearts on the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Have a mind all of whose thoughts are fixed on the things which are...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
APPEAR. be manifested. App-106. GLORY. See p. 1511....
_When Christ … shall appear_ R.V., somewhat more closely, SHALL BE MANIFESTED; leaving the Secret Place of His glory to return to human sight, in His Second Advent. The verb is used in the same connex...
20–3:4. _Transition to the detailed practical directions of the Epistle_ (Colossians 3:5 to Colossians 4:6). St Paul, first negatively (Colossians 2:20-23), and secondly positively (c....
ὍΤΑΝ Ὁ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΣ ΦΑΝΕΡΩΘΗ͂Ι κ.τ.λ. The connexion of thought with Colossians 3:3 is as follows: Concealment is necessarily only temporary (cf. Mark 4:22); a day is coming when Christ will be made known i...
ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) с _conj._ когда бы ни. ФАΝΕΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΦΑΝΕΡΌΩ (G5319) строить план, прояснять, проявлять. Здесь относится к приходу Господа, когда со всего спадет покров, и вещи, сокрытые...
DISCOURSE: 2183 THE EXALTED STATE OF A CHRISTIAN Colossians 3:3. _Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him...
3. FOR YE DIED, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. 4. WHEN CHRIST, _WHO IS_ OUR LIFE, SHALL BE MANIFESTED, THEN SHALL YE ALSO WITH HIM BE MANIFESTED IN GLORY. _Translation and Paraphrase_ 3. (I...
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 'When Christ shall be manifested, who is our life (; ; ), then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory...
__ 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...
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...
WHEN CHRIST... SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY. — This describes the last stage of the spiritual life — the glorification with Christ in heaven, manifesting what now is hidde...
III. (1-4) As the partaking of the death of Christ taught the negative lesson of death to the Law, so the partaking of His resurrection teaches the positive lesson of the spiritual life. We observe th...
CHAPTER 3 THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN LIFE A RISEN LIFE Colossians 3:1 (R.V.) We have now done with controversy. We hear no more about heretical teachers. The Apostle has cut his way through the tangled t...
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...
This life is not always to remain hidden, it will be manifested at the second coming. And that not merely in union with Christ, for it is Christ Himself who is our Life. This is not to be toned down t...
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...
Setting One's Mind Above Christians have died with Christ in baptism and been risen with Him to walk in a new life (Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:20; Romans 6:3-4). Because the Christian has risen wit...
(1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye ar...
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...
4._But when Christ, our life, shall appear_. Here we have a choice consolation — that the coming of Christ will be the manifestation of our life. And, at the same time, he admonishes us how unreasonab...
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...
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR,.... The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies, read, "your life". Christ is the author of spiritual life, the fountain from whence it springs, the object o...
When Christ, _who is_ our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Ver. 4. _Then shall we appear_] What then do we loading onrselves with thick clay, or moiling ourselves here...
_For ye are dead_ As to sin, so to the world and all earthly things, and that both by profession as Christians, and by an indispensable obligation laid upon you by Him whose laws you have engaged to o...
SHALL APPEAR; shall be manifested in glory at his second coming. SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR; be manifested, so that all shall see the glory which God has bestowed on you. Christ is the light, life, and joy...
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY. As the Bible-student will note, the similarity between Colossians and Ephesians is everywhere apparent, but now...
THE AFFECTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS SET ON THINGS ABOVE....
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...
New Aims for New Men - 3:1-4 1IF THEN YOU WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST IS, SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. In Colossians 2:20 Paul argued that we were de...
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL BE MANIFESTED, THEN SHALL YE ALSO WITH HIM BE MANIFESTED IN GLORY. 'WHO IS OUR LIFE' - _ Points to Note:_ 1. Unfortunately, at times Christians will say that so...
1-4 As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk the more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary one to the other, both cannot be followed together;...
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR; which will be, according to the purpose and promise of God, with whom it is laid up, COLOSSIANS 1:5, when Christ by whom they live shall so appear that they...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Deportant ergo ipsi quoque iram, indignationem, vitium, maledictum, turpem sermonem ex ore suo, exuentes veterem hominem cum concupiscentiis, et induentes novu...
Colossians 3:4 When G3752 Christ G5547 our G2257 life G2222 appears G5319 (G5686) then G5119 you G5210 also...
‘When Christ who is our life shall be revealed and made fully made known, then will you also be fully made known with him in glory.' And what a glorious future awaits the Christian. For one day at His...
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....
1. _Fellowship with the Exalted Christ the Motive for the New Life._ This section is closely joined in thought with what precedes; hence some regard it as the conclusion of the polemical portion of th...
Colossians 3:4. WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE. The evidence in favor of the reading ‘your' is strong (including that of Aleph, C, the best cursives, and the Vulgate), but is scarcely decisive against t...
WHEN CHRIST SHALL BE MANIFESTED (οταν ο Χριστος φανερωθη). Indefinite temporal clause with οταν and the first aorist passive subjunctive of φανεροω, "whenever Christ is manifested," a reference to...
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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth._ Th...
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...
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._...
WHEN HE APPEARS. A tree in winter is not dead even though the life is hidden. In the Second Coming of Christ, the Christian's real life will show itself. Compare 1 John 3:2; Romans 8:19....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:1 The Proper Focus: Christ and the Life Above. This section is a bridge to Paul’s appeals to live in a way that pleases the Lord....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:3. YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.—You are much more likely to have it kept pure by having it in Christ than by setting round it a hedge of “Thou sh...
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 15:43; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:2;...
Who is our life [ζ ω η]. See on John 1:4. The life is not only with Christ, it is Christ. Compare John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 4:11;
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
That is, "When Christ, who is the author, and purchaser, and preserver of our life, shall appear to judge the world at the great day, then shall all believers, who have received spiritual life from hi...