Charles Spurgeon Commentary Colossians 2:15

"having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it." — Colossians 2:15 (ASV)

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Exhibiting them as his prisoners in a triumphal procession, as the victorious Roman Generals did when they returned from war.

To the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful.

It looks like a very small virtue to be thankful. Yet, dear friends, the absence of it is one of the grossest of vices. To be ungrateful is a mean thing: to be ungrateful to God is a base thing. And yet how many may accuse themselves of it! Who among us is as grateful as he should be? Be thankful.