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Live Your New Reality
Commentators explain that "dying with Christ" signifies a real spiritual separation from the world's way of thinking. Paul's question is a logical challenge: If you are spiritually dead to the world's principles, why do you continue to live as if you are bound by its external religious rules? Your new identity in Christ, not old regulations, should dictate your life.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 2:20
18th Century
Theologian
Wherefore. In view of all that has been said. If it is true that you are really dead to the world, why do you act as if you still…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 2:20
If ye died (ε απεθανετε). Condition of the first class, assumed as true, ε and second aorist active indicative of αποθνησκω, to di…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 2:20
19th Century
Bishop
If you are dead with Christ.—The whole idea of the death with Christ and resurrection with Him is summed up by St. Paul in Romans …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 2:20–22
19th Century
Preacher
Therefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch n…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 2:20
When one becomes a Christian, one’s connection with the world of legal and ascetic ordinances is severed. Asceticism, then, is not in keeping with …
John Calvin
On Colossians 2:20
16th Century
Theologian
If you are dead. He had previously said that the ordinances were fastened to the cross of Christ (Colossians 2:14). He now emp…
John Gill
On Colossians 2:20
17th Century
Pastor
Wherefore if you are dead with Christ
Or "seeing you are dead with Christ"; for these words do not signify any doubt…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 2:18–23
17th Century
Minister
It looked like humility to appeal to angels, as if people were conscious of their unworthiness to speak directly to God. But it is not justifiable;…