Colossians 3:6 - Exposition

Because of which (things) the anger of God cometh [upon the sons of disobedience] ( Ephesians 2:2 , Ephesians 2:3 ; Ephesians 5:6 ; Galatians 5:21 ; Romans 1:18 ; Romans 2:5-9 ; Romans 5:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 ; John 3:36 ; Revelation 6:17 ; Ma Revelation 3:2 ). The latter phrase is cancelled by Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Lightfoot, Westcott and Hort; but retained by Ellicott and, preferentially, by the Revisers. The witnesses against it, though numerically few, are varied and select, and the parallel ( Ephesians 5:6 ) would suggest insertion of the words if originally absent. "The anger of God is coming" is a sentence complete in itself (setup. Romans 1:18 ). God's "anger" ( ὀργή ) is his settled punitive indignation against sin, of which his "wrath" ( θυμός ) is the terrible outflaming ( Revelation 16:1 ; Revelation 14:10 ); see Trench's 'Synonyms.' "Cometh" implies a continuing fact or fixed principle; or rather, perhaps, signifies that this "anger" is in course of manifestation, is "on the way:" comp. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 , "the anger that is coming," not "to come," also the use of ἔρχομαι in John 14:3 , John 14:18 ; Hebrews 10:37 . The objects of this anger ("children of wrath," Ephesians 2:2 , Ephesians 2:3 ) are "the sons of disobedience." The expressive Hebraism by which a man is said to be s child or son of the dominant quality or influence of his life is frequent in the New Testament.