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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:11

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew - In which new creation no inquiry is made what nation the persons belonged to, or from what ancestry they had sprung, whether in Judea or Greece. Circumcision nor uncircumcision - Nor is their peculiar form of religion of any consideration, whether circumcised like the Jews, or uncircumcised like the heathens. Barbarian, Scythian - Nor whether of the more or less tractable of the nations of the world; for although knowledge, and the most refined... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:1

Verse 1 To those fruitless exercises which the false apostles urged, (429) as though perfection consisted in them, he opposes those true exercises in which it becomes Christians to employ themselves; and this has no slight bearing upon the point in hand; for when we see what God would have us do, we afterwards easily despise the inventions of men. When we perceive, too, that what God recommends to us is much more lofty and excellent than what men inculcate, our alacrity of mind increases for... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:2

Verse 2 2.Not the things that are on earth. He does not mean, as he does a little afterwards, depraved appetites, which reign in earthly men, nor even riches, or fields, or houses, nor any other things of the present life, which we must use, as though we did not use them, (1 Corinthians 7:30) (433) but is still following out his discussion as to ceremonies, which he represents as resembling entanglements which constrain us to creep upon the ground. “Christ,” says he, “calls us upwards to... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:7

Verse 7 7.In which ye walked. Erasmus mistakingly refers this to men, rendering it, “inter quos ,” (“among whom, ”) for there can be no doubt that Paul had in view the vices, in which he, says that the Colossians had walked, during the time that they lived in them. For living and walking differ from each other, as power does from action. Living holds the first place: walking comes afterwards, as in Galatians 5:25, If ye live in the SPIRIT, WALK also in the Spirit. By these words he intimates,... 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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:2

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

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:7

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

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

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