Colossians 3:4

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 the Vatican manuscript and other weighty authorities. ‘Your' might have been taken from the preceding verse. ‘Christ,' occurring for the fourth time, is emphatic ‘Our' points to Christians in general, ‘ye also' to the Colossians. Christ Himself is ‘our life;' He is ‘not merely a remote and separated Cause, but Impulse, Power, Object and Subject of the Life itself' (Braune); comp. marg. references.

Shall be manifested; not, ‘appear.' This manifestation is contrasted with ‘hath been hidden' (Colossians 3:3); it will occur at the Second Advent.

Then shall ye also. See above. If ‘your' is accepted in the previous clause. ‘also' here must mean ‘as well as Christ,' an idea expressed by with him, which has an emphatic position in the Greek.

In glory; comp. Romans 8:17: ‘glorified with Him.' Lightfoot: ‘The veil which now shrouds your higher life from others, and even partly from yourselves, will then be withdrawn. The world which persecutes, despises, ignores now, will then be blinded with the dazzling glory of the revelation.' Thus the motives for sanctification are drawn from the past, present, and future; but all from Christ; ye were raised together with Him; ye can now set your mind on Him at God's right hand; your future glory will begin in the day of His manifestation.