Colossians 3:6

6. At the end of the verse Text. Rec. adds ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς� (from Ephesians 5:6) with אAC(D), etc. “In D, however, they are written (though by the first hand) in smaller letters and extend beyond the line (in both Greek and Latin), whence we may infer that they were not found in a copy which was before the transcriber” (Lightfoot). The additional words are omitted by B, Sahid. Clem.-Alex.-MSS. Cyprian (Ambrst.).

6. διʼ ἅ, cf. Ephesians 5:6.

ἔρχεται ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ. See notes on Textual Criticism. Not His feeling or attitude towards sin, but the external manifestation of that attitude; cf. Romans 1:18; Romans 5:9. This is regarded as coming with certainty on the ungodly (1 Thessalonians 1:10), in the final day of wrath (Romans 2:5).

St Paul frequently appends a similar saying to his lists of sins, Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 6:10. Here it is the more needed in contrast to the hope of the godly in Colossians 3:4. Chrys. says, διὰ πολλῶν�· διὰ τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν τῶν ὑπαρξασῶν, διὰ τῶν μελλόντων ἐξ ὧν�.