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Your Debt is Paid
Commentators explain that the "bond" or "handwriting" in this verse refers to a legal certificate of debt, like an IOU. This debt represents the impossible demands of God's Law, which stood against humanity as a record of our failure. Through Christ, God has completely "blotted out" or canceled this debt, forgiving all our trespasses.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 2:14
18th Century
Theologian
Blotting out the handwriting. The word translated handwriting means something written by the hand, a manuscript; and here, probab…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 2:14
Having blotted out (εξαλειψας). And so "cancelled." First aorist active participle of old verb εξαλειφω, to rub out, wipe off, era…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 2:14
19th Century
Bishop
Blotting out the handwriting—that is, cancelling the bond which stood against us in its ordinances. The “handwriting” is …
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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 2:14
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 2:14
16th Century
Theologian
Having blotted out the hand-writing which was against us (Colossians 2:14). He now contends with the false apostles in close c…
John Gill
On Colossians 2:14
17th Century
Pastor
Error: Completed but no modernized text found in DB
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…