The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:6
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... read more
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