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From Death to Life
Before Christ, we were spiritually "dead." Commentators explain this isn't just about bad behavior, but a state of total separation from God, the source of life. This condition was marked by our sins and our "uncircumcision," which scholars identify as a symbol of being outside God's covenant and having a corrupt nature. The gospel's power is that God makes us alive with Christ, a spiritual resurrection that mirrors His physical one.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 2:13
18th Century
Theologian
And you, being dead in your sins. (See Barnes on Ephesians 2:1).
And the uncircumcision of your flesh. That is, Gentiles, …
AT Robertson
On Colossians 2:13
And you (κα υμας). Emphatic position, object of the verb συνεζωοποιησεν (did he quicken) and repeated (second υμας). You Gentiles …
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 2:13
19th Century
Bishop
And you . . .—Here, exactly as in Ephesians 2:1-18, there is a remarkable intermixture of the word “we” and the word “you,” the fo…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 2:12–15
19th Century
Preacher
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. An…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 2:13
In the closing words of v.12 Paul mentioned God’s raising Christ from the dead. Now he assures his readers that in Christ they share the resurrecti…
John Calvin
On Colossians 2:13
16th Century
Theologian
And you, when you were dead. He admonishes the Colossians to recognize what he had addressed in a general way as applicable to themselves,…
John Gill
On Colossians 2:13
17th Century
Pastor
And you being dead in your sins
Not corporeally, though sin had subjected them to a corporeal death, and their bodie…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 2:8–17
17th Century
Minister
There is a philosophy that rightly exercises our reasonable faculties: a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God and conf…