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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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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 1:22
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 1:22
Yet now (νυν δε). Sharpened contrast with emphatic form of νυν, "now" being not at the present moment, but in the present order of…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 1:22
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 1:18–22
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 1:22
God reconciled the Colossians “by Christ’s physical body through death.” The phrase “physical body” seems to emphasize (in contradiction to the vie…
John Calvin
On Colossians 1:22
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Colossians 1:22
17th Century
Pastor
In the body of his flesh through death
Or "through his death", as the Alexandrian copy and some others, and all the …
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 1:15–23
17th Century
Minister
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…