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yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
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A Real Body, A Real Death
Commentators emphasize the phrase "in the body of his flesh" to stress the reality of Jesus's humanity. Against early heresies that suggested Jesus was only a spirit, Paul insists that our reconciliation was accomplished through the physical death of a real human body. Your salvation is grounded in a historical, tangible event.
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Colossians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the body of his flesh through death. The death of his body, or his death in making an atonement, has been the means of producing this r…
Yet now (νυν δε). Sharpened contrast with emphatic form of νυν, "now" being not at the present moment, but in the present order of…
19th Century
Anglican
In the body of his flesh.—There seems to be some emphasis on the word “flesh:” just as in the parallel of Ephesians 2:16, the expr…
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Baptist
The church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that…
God reconciled the Colossians “by Christ’s physical body through death.” The phrase “physical body” seems to emphasize (in contradiction to the vie…
16th Century
Protestant
In the body of his flesh. The expression is seemingly absurd, but the body of his flesh means that human body which the Son of Go…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In the body of his flesh through death Or "through his death", as the Alexandrian copy and some others, and all the …
Christ in His human nature is the visible manifestation of the invisible God, and he who has seen Him has seen the Father. Let us adore these myste…
13th Century
Catholic
After the Apostle commended Christ in His relationship to God and to all creatures, he now commends Him in His relationship to the Church. He does …
