John Calvin Commentary Colossians 3:8

"but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:" — Colossians 3:8 (ASV)

But now—that is, after having ceased to live in the flesh. For the power and nature of mortification are such, that all corrupt affections are extinguished in us, lest sin should afterward produce in us its usual fruits. What I have rendered indignationem, (indignation), is in the Greek θυμός—a term that denotes a more vehement passion than ὀργὴ, (anger). Here, however, he enumerates, as may easily be perceived, forms of vice that were different from those previously mentioned.