Colossians 2:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:12

When ye were (literally, having been ) buried with him in your baptism ( Colossians 2:20 ; Colossians 3:3 ; Romans 6:1-11 ; Galatians 3:26 , Galatians 3:27 ; Ephesians 4:5 ; Ephesians 5:26 ; Titus 3:5 ; 1 Peter 3:21 ). βαπτισμός , the rarer form of the word, is preferred by Tregelles, Alford, Lightfoot (see his note), being found in Codex B, with other good authorities; it indicates the process ("in your baptizing"). βάπτισμα , the usual form of the word, is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:12

The import of Christian baptism. Circumcision has passed away, something has come in its place in Christian times. The two ordinances of circumcision and baptism have a correlative significance. "Having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead." I. THE IMPORT AND DESIGN OF BAPTISM . It solemnly attests that fellowship with Christ in his death and resurrection on which all personal... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Colossians 2:12

Buried with him in baptism - See the notes at Romans 6:4.Wherein also - In which ordinance, or by virtue of that which is signified by the ordinance.Ye are risen with him - From the death of sin to the life of religion; Notes, Romans 6:4-5; compare the notes at Ephesians 2:5-6.Through the faith of the operation of God - By a firm belief on the agency of God in raising him up; that is, a belief of the fact that God has raised him from the dead. The resurrection of Christ is often represented as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Colossians 2:11-12

Colossians 2:11-12. In whom also ye are circumcised Ye have received the spiritual blessings signified of old by circumcision; with the circumcision made without hands Namely, an internal, spiritual circumcision; in putting off Not a little skin, but the whole body of the sins of the flesh All the sins proceeding from your corrupt nature; by the circumcision of Christ The circumcision of the heart, which Christ requires and effects. Buried with him, &c. That is, which he... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:6-15

2:6-3:4 FALSE VIEWS LEAD TO BONDAGEFreedom through Christ (2:6-15)Again Paul reminds the believers that receiving Christ is only the beginning of the Christian life. There must be continual growth through building the life on him (6-7).The Colossians know that God has freed them from the powers of evil (see 1:13). If, then, they turn and accept a religion powered by the unseen spiritual forces of evil, they are placing themselves in bondage once again (8). Christ needs no angelic powers to help... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Colossians 2:12

Buried with . See Romans 6:4 . baptism . App-115 . His baptism unto death. wherein = in ( App-104 .) Whom. also , &c. = ye were raised ( App-178 .) also, and ep. Colossians 3:1 and Ephesians 2:6 , operation . App-172 . hath . Omit. raised . App-178 . from , &c. App-139 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Colossians 2:12

Having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.Buried with him in baptism ... Note that nothing is said here of baptism being accomplished without human hands, the same being an obvious impossibility. Note too that there is here the plainest reference to immersion as the action recognized by the apostles as being required in the baptism commanded by Christ. One may read bales of sophistry on this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Colossians 2:12

Colossians 2:12. Buried with him in baptism,— This verse is in pursuance of what is said in the former; namely, to shew that their baptism was an emblem of the true circumcision, inasmuch as thereby they made a profession of being dead with Christ, and of being raised together with him to a new life. Compare Romans 6:4. As this church at Colosse was planted earlier than that at Rome, and this epistle was written later than that to the Romans, it more abundantly confirms the perpetuity of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Colossians 2:12

12. Translate, "Having been buried with Him in your baptism." The past participle is here coincident in time with the preceding verb, "ye were (Greek) circumcised." Baptism is regarded as the burial of the old carnal life, to which the act of immersion symbolically corresponds; and in warm climates where immersion is safe, it is the mode most accordant with the significance of the ordinance; but the spirit of the ordinance is kept by affusion, where immersion would be inconvenient or dangerous;... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Colossians 2:8-15

B. The true doctrine of Christ 2:8-15Paul revealed what his readers enjoyed in Christ in this pericope to encourage them to remain faithful to the true revelation they had received and believed."The apostle now makes his most direct attack against ’the Colossian heresy.’ The entire passage bristles with exegetical difficulties, and calls for closer attention to its wording and argument than any other part of the Epistle." [Note: Vaughan, p. 197.] "Colossians 2:8 functions as a heading and... read more

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