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 thickets of error, and has said his say as to the positive truths with which he would hew them down.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 because ye "were raised together with Him." In other words, the plainest, homeliest moral teaching of... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 3 THE NEW NATURE WROUGHT OUT IN NEW LIFE Colossians 3:9 (R.V.) IN previous chapter we were obliged to break the close connection between these words and the preceding. They adduce a reason for the moral exhortation going before, which at first sight may appear very illogical. "Put off thes... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 3 THE GARMENTS OF THE RENEWED SOUL Colossians 3:12 (R.V.) We need not repeat what has been already said as to the logic of the inference, You have put off the "old man," therefore put off the vices which belong to him. Here we have the same argument in reference to the "new man" who is to... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 3 THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE PEACE OF CHRIST, THE WORD OF CHRIST, AND THE NAME OF CHRIST Colossians 3:15 (R.V) There are here three precepts somewhat loosely connected, of which the first belongs properly to the series considered in our last chapter, from which it is only separated as no... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1 (R.V.) This chapter deals with the Christian family, as made up of husband and wife, children, and servants. In the family, Christianity has most signally displayed its power of refining, ennobling, and sanctifying earthly relationshi... [ Continue Reading ]