Colossians 3:14

Above all (ejpi pasin). According to the metaphor of the garment. Over all, like an upper garment, put on, etc.

Charity. See on 1 Corinthians 13:1.

Bond of perfectness [σ υ ν δ ε σ μ ο ς τ η ς τ ε λ ε ι ο τ η τ ο ς]. Love embraces and knits together all the virtues. Teleiothv perfectness is a collective idea, a result of combination, to which bond is appropriate. Compare Plato : "But two things cannot be held together without a third; they must have some bond of union. And the fairest bond is that which most completely fuses and is fused into the things which are bound" (" Timaeus, " 31).