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Adam Clarke

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

For ye are dead - To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the things of this life, than he does whose soul is departed into the invisible state. Your life is hid with Christ in God - Christ is your treasure; and where your treasure is, there is your heart. Christ lives in the bosom of the Father; as your heart is in him, ye also sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Christ is the life of your souls; and as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is our life - When Christ comes to judge the world, ye shall appear with him in his glory, and in an eternal state of blessedness. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:5

Mortify, therefore, you members - Νεκρωσατε· Put them to death: the verb is used metaphorically to signify, to deprive a thing of its power, to destroy its strength. Use no member of your body to sin against God; keep all under dominion; and never permit the beast to run away with the man. To gratify any sensual appetite is to give it the very food and nourishment by which it lives, thrives, and is active. However the body may suffer by excessive sensual indulgences, the appetite increases... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:6

The wrath of God cometh - God is angry with such persons, and he inflicts on them the punishment which they deserve. read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 3 3.For ye are dead. No one can rise again with Christ, if he has not first died with him. Hence he draws an argument from rising again to dying, as from a consequent to an antecedent, (434) meaning that we must be dead to the world that we may live to Christ. Why has he taught, that we must seek those things that are above ? It is because the life of the pious is above. Why does he now teach, that the things which are on earth are to be left off? Because they are dead to the world.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:4

Verse 4 4.But when Christ, our life, shall appear. Here we have a choice consolation — that the coming of Christ will be the manifestation of our life. And, at the same time, he admonishes us how unreasonable were the disposition of the man, who should refuse to bear up (435) until that day. For if our life is shut up in Christ, it must be hid, until he shall appear read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:5

Verse 5 5.Mortify therefore. Hitherto he has been speaking of contempt of the world. He now proceeds further, and enters upon a higher philosophy, as to the mortification of the flesh. That this may be the better understood, let us take notice that there is a twofold mortification. The former relates to those things that are around us. Of this he has hitherto treated. The other is inward — that of the understanding and will, and of the whole of our corrupt nature. He makes mention of certain... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:6

Verse 6 6.On account of which things the wrath of God cometh. I do not find fault with the rendering of Erasmus — solet venire — (is wont to come,) but as the present tense is often taken in Scripture instead of the future, according to the idiom of the Hebrew language, I have preferred to leave the rendering undecided, so that it might be accommodated to either meaning. He warns the Colossians, then, either of the ordinary judgments of God, which are seen daily, or of the vengeance which he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-4

Our risen life. "If then ye were raised together with Christ." At this point the apostle leaves the polemical and begins the practical. Doctrine again forms the foundation for exhortation. As in combating asceticism he proceeded upon the fact that we were sharers with Christ in his death, so in presenting a substitute for asceticism, he proceeds upon the fact that we were sharers with him in his resurrection. Our being baptized with him extended, not only to our dying with him, but also to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-4

The Christian's higher life. Our text gives us a magnificent picture of the higher life of man, indicating the means of its beginning, the signs of its progress, and the hope of its perpetuity. I. THE EXPERIENCES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE HIGHER LIFE . These initial experiences are spoken of under the three allied figures of death, the hiding as of burial and resurrection. There is an experience: 1 . As of death. "Ye have died." The soul as it becomes Christian... read more

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