Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Colossians 3:8
Wrath — Is lasting anger. Filthy discourse — And was there need to warn even these saints of God against so gross and palpable a sin as this? O what is man, till perfect love casts out both fear and sin.
Wrath — Is lasting anger. Filthy discourse — And was there need to warn even these saints of God against so gross and palpable a sin as this? O what is man, till perfect love casts out both fear and sin.
Verse 8. _BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT ON ALL THESE_] Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 4:22. Being now converted, sin had no more dominion over them. _ANGER, WRATH_, c.] They had not only lived in the evils mention...
BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE - All these which follow, as being also inconsistent with the Christian calling. ANGER, WRATH - Notes, Ephesians 4:26. MALICE - Notes, Ephesians 4:31....
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)...
a So, then, put to death these parts of you which are earthly-- fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, the desire to get more than you ought--for this is idol worship; and because of these th...
PUT OFF. See Ephesians 4:22. ANGER. Same as "wrath', Colossians 3:6. WRATH. Greek. _thumos_. See Romans 2:5. MALICE. App-128. FILTHY COMMUNICATION. Greek. _aisehrologia._
_But now_ Under the divinely altered case of their conversion and union with Christ. _you also_ As well as all other true believers. _put off_ The Greek is _imperative_, and so the English is to be t...
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....
ΝΥΝῚ ΔῈ, see Colossians 1:21. ἈΠΌΘΕΣΘΕ. ἀποτίθεσθαι is used of putting off clothing, literally in Acts 7:58, and metaphorically in Romans 13:12;...
ΆΠΌΘΕΣΘΕ _aor. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G659) снимать с себя, сменять одежду, раздеваться, скидывать, ΘΥΜΌΣ (G2372) гнев. Это пылающий гнев, который горит и бушует, как пожар (Trench, Synony...
BLASPHEMY,— The original word properly signifies_blasphemy;_ but it includes not only impious speeches with regard to God, which is the highest degree of malignant language, but all railing and reproa...
7. WHEREIN YE ALSO ONCE WALKED, WHEN YE LIVED IN THESE THINGS; 8. BUT NOW DO YE ALSO PUT THEM ALL AWAY: ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, RAILING, SHAMEFUL SPEAKING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH: _Translation and Paraphrase...
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. BUT NOW - that ye are no longer living in them. YE ALSO - like other believers: answer...
__ 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...
3:8 off, (a-4) The aorist. 'be in the state of having done it.'...
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...
BLASPHEMY] RV 'railing.' FILTHY COMMUNICATION] rather, 'abusive speech.'...
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...
ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, BLASPHEMY (_slander — _see Ephesians 4:31 and Notes there), FILTHY COMMUNICATION. — The word is “foul,” and the context here seems to show that it refers to grossness of insult a...
[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...
Colossians 3:5 contain the negative section of St. Paul’s practical appeal, drawing out the consequences of the “death with Christ,” in the mortification of all tendencies to impurity, malice, and fal...
CHAPTER 3 SLAYING SELF THE FOUNDATION PRECEPT OF PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Colossians 3:5 (R.V.) "Mortify therefore"-wherefore? The previous words give the reason. Because "ye died" with Christ, and be...
Colossians 3:8; Colossians 3:8-10 are largely parallel to Ephesians 4:22-25; Ephesians 4:31. νυνὶ δὲ : “but now,” emphatic co
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...
_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...
(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...
8._But now _— that is, after having ceased to _live in the flesh_. For the power and nature of _mortification _are such, that all corrupt affections are extinguished in us, lest sin should afterwards...
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...
BUT NOW YOU ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE,.... Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former state in which they were once, and professed not to walk and live in sin, it beca...
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Ver. 8. _Filthy communication_] The devil's drivel. _See Trapp on "_ Eph 5:4 _"_...
_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...
BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE: ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATION OUT OF YOUR MOUTH....
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...
BUT NOW DO YE ALSO PUT THEM ALL AWAY: ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, RAILING, SHAMEFUL SPEAKING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH: 'BUT NOW' -Since the wrath of God is coming to punish those involved in such things (Colossia...
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...
BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE: having minded them of their former condition under paganism in a state of sin, while they served various sensual lusts, he doth here in their present circumstances u...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII For "to bring themselves into captivity," and to slay themselves, putting to death "the old man, who is through lusts corrupt," and raising the new man from de...
Colossians 3:8 But G1161 now G3570 you G5210 yourselves G2532 off G659 (G5640) these G3956 anger G3709 wrath...
‘But now you, also, put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking from the mouth. Do not lie, the one to the other, seeing you have put off the old man with his doings, and have...
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....
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...
Colossians 3:8. BUT NOW, in contrast with ‘once' (Colossians 3:7), ye also, as well as other Christians, put off, as garments are put off (not the same word as in Colossians 3:9, but found in...
BUT NOW (νυν δε). Emphatic form of νυν in decided contrast (to ποτε in verse Colossians 3:7) in the resurrection life of Colossians 2:12; Colossians 3:1.PUT YE ALSO AWAY (αποθεσθε κα υμεις). Secon...
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._...
BUT NOW. Get rid of all the sins mentioned, and the ones which follow. In their baptism they got rid of the "old man," and in their union with Christ, took on his qualities as a "new man" (2 Corinthia...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:8 PUT THEM ALL AWAY. Paul lists five more vices (see v. Colossians 3:5) that Christians need to renounce. These are all related to relat
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:5. MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH.—“Quite so!” the heretic teacher might say; “this is just what we ourselves advise.” “Yes,” rej...
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 3:3; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Timothy 1:13; 1 Timothy 1:20;...
Put off [α π ο θ ε σ θ ε]. Compare Romans 13:12; Ephesians 4:22; Ephesians 4:25; Hebrews 12:1;...
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
In the foregoing verses, St. Paul exhorted the Colossians to mortify external and outward sins, as fornication and uncleanness; here he presses them to mortify internal and spiritual sins, such as ang...