歌羅西書 3:8-10 CUNPTS

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:10

And have put on the new man - See on Romans 12:1-2 ; (note). Is renewed in knowledge - Ignorance was the grand characteristic of the heathen state; Knowledge, of the Christian. The utmost to which heathenism could pretend was a certain knowledge of nature. How far this went, and how much it fell short of the truth, may be seen in the writings of Aristotle and Pliny. Christianity reveals God himself, the author of nature; or, rather, God has revealed himself, in the Christian system... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:8

Verse 8 8.But now — that is, after having ceased to live in the flesh. For the power and nature of mortification are such, that all corrupt affections are extinguished in us, lest sin should afterwards produce in us its wonted fruits. What I have rendered indignationem , (indignation,) is in the Greek θυμός — a term, which denotes a more impetuous passionateness than ὀργὴ, (anger.) Here, however, he enumerates, as may easily be perceived, forms of vice that were different from those previously... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:9

Verse 9 9.Lie not. When he forbids lying, he condemns every sort of cunning, and all base artifices of deception. For I do not understand the term as referring merely to calumnies, but I view it as contrasted in a general way with sincerity. Hence it might be allowable to render it more briefly, and I am not sure but that it might also be a better rendering, thus: Lie not one to another. He follows out, however, his argument as to the fellowship, which believers have in the death and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:10

Verse 10 10.Which is renewed in knowledge. He shews in the first place, that newness of life consists in knowledge — not as though a simple and bare knowledge were sufficient, but he speaks of the illumination of the Holy Spirit, which is lively and effectual, so as not merely to enlighten the mind by kindling it up with the light of truth, but transforming the whole man. And this is what he immediately adds, that we are renewed after the image of God. Now, the image of God resides in the whole... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-17

SECTION VII . THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE . The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more practical purport of his letter. There is no break, however, in the current of his thought; for throughout this chapter he urges the pursuit of a practical Christian life in a sense and in a manner silently opposed to the tendencies of Gnosticizing error. How much more congenial was the task to which he now... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-17

The true Christian life. From above only can we be raised. There is no salvation in mere antipathy. Disgust at the vanities of life, repulsion from earthly things, will of itself never lift us beyond them; it needs the superior influence of heavenly things to do that. This the Colossian errorists did not rightly understand; or they could not have made ceremonial purifications and bodily austerities the way of holiness, the means of reaching spiritual perfection. "Touch not, taste not" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

Mortification after death. Paul, having spoken of our death to earthly things and of our heavenly life, speaks next of mortification as succeeding death. It seems at first sight strange, yet, when analyzed, it is seen to convey most important truth. To quote from Coder's 'Etudes Bibliques:' "When this apostle [Paul] wishes to teach us how one may attempt to die to sin and to live to God, see how he expresses himself: 'Reckon that you are dead to sin and living unto God in Jesus Christ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

Dying before rising. There is an alternating between dying and rising. Having carried out the idea of rising, the apostle goes back to the idea of dying; and, before this paragraph is concluded, he goes back to the idea of rising. I. MORTIFYING OF OUR MEMBERS WITH REFERENCE TO TWO SINS . "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth." It is not a ground of condemnation that our members are upon the earth. The idea is simply the members through which we... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

Death to evil. The central thought around which the strange and striking ideas of these sentences gather is "Death to evil." St. Paul exhorts us to put evil to death, to make a corpse of it. Here we have truly "Mors janua vitae." We inquire— I. IN WHAT THIS DEATH CONSISTS . "Put to death your members which are upon the earth." The meaning seems to be the same as Christ's command, "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out," etc. Neither Christ's nor Paul's injunction can mean... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:8

But now do ye put away indeed all these (things) ( Colossians 3:9 ; Colossians 2:11 ; Ephesians 4:22 , Ephesians 4:25 ; Romans 13:12 ; 1 Peter 2:1 ). The thought of the death of the old life gives place to that of the divesting of the old habit; the new life wears a new dress, Mark the triumphant emphasis in "but now!" (opposed to the "once" of verse 8), characteristic of the writer (comp. Colossians 1:1-29 , 21, 26; Romans 3:21 ; Romans 6:22 , etc.). τὰ πάντα ... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:8

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