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Colossians 2:11
in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
Verse 11. _IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED_] All that was designed by circumcision, literally performed, is accomplished in them that believe through the Spirit and power of Christ. It is not a cutti...
IN WHOM - In connection with whom, or in virtue of whose religion. YE ARE CIRCUMCISED - You have received that which was designed to be represented by circumcision - the putting away of sin; Notes, P...
II. COMPLETE IN HIM, IN WHOM ALL THE FULLNESS DWELLS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The mystery of God (Colossians 2:1)_ 2. Complete in Christ (Colossians 2:9) 3. Exhortations and warnings (Colossians 2:16
AN URGENT WARNING AGAINST A DEGRADING THEOSOPHY. Let them not be led away by false reasonings, however persuasive. They must think of Paul, despite his bodily absence, as being with them in spirit (1...
In him you have been circumcised with a circumcision not made by man's hands, a circumcision which consists in putting off the whole of that part of you which is dominated by sinful human nature, whic...
LOVE'S STRUGGLE (Colossians 2:1) _ 2:1 I want you to know how great a struggle I am going through for you, and for the people of Laodicaea, and for all those who have never seen me face to face._ He...
Beware lest there will be anyone who will carry you off as his spoil, by insisting on the necessity of a so-called philosophy, which is, in fact, an empty delusion, a philosophy which has been handed...
ALSO. Should follow "circumcised". ARE. were. MADE WITHOUT HANDS. See 2 Corinthians 5:1. PUTTING OFF Greek. _apekdusis._ Only here. OF THE SINS. Omit. by. App-104....
_in whom_ The truth of the holy Union of members and Head is again in view. What he is about to speak of was done by the fact of, by virtue of, their oneness with Christ. _are circumcised_ Better, WER...
ἘΝ ὯΙ. He now states in some detail what believers obtained in Christ. ΚΑῚ ΠΕΡΙΕΤΜΉΘΗΤΕ. The suddenness of the reference to circumcision can only be accounted for by its being advocated by the false t...
_You have in Christ far more than what the false teachers promise you and demand of you, for He is superior to all spiritual powers_ (Colossians 2:8) Be watchful not to be led astray. Many a false tea...
ΠΕΡΙΕΤΜΉΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ КГΡΙΤΈΜΝΩ (G4059) обрезать (_см._ Galatians 2:3). ΠΕΡΙΤΟΜΉ (G4061) _dat. sing._ обрезание, ΆΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΊΗΤΟΣ (G886) нерукотворный, ΆΠΈΚΔΥΣΙΣ (G555) снятие. Предложное...
DISCOURSE: 2177 THE CHRISTIAN’S COMPLETENESS IN CHRIST Colossians 2:10. Ye are complete in him, which is the Head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision m...
IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED— St. Paul uses this argument in opposition to those who pleaded for the necessity of external circumcision. He assures the Colossians, that they had no need of this cir...
11. IN WHOM YE WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED WITH A CIRCUMCISION NOT MADE WITH HANDS, IN THE PUTTING OFF OF THE BODY OF THE FLESH, IN THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST; 12. HAVING BEEN BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM, WH...
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Implying that they did not need, as the Jud...
__ The Secret of Christ 23 The scope of reconciliation is not confined to mankind: it is as broad as creation. Its proclamation was made to every creature under heaven. It is God's loving purpose to...
THE BODY OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH] RV 'the body of the flesh.' The carnal nature, the old self, is meant. THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST] probably an expression for the death of Christ, in which the Chris...
THE FALSE TEACHING AND ITS REFUTATION 4-15. Hold fast to Christ the All-sufficient Saviour. PARAPHRASE. '(4) I emphasise these truths about Christ lest you should be beguiled by plausible persuasions...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 V1 I am working for you. I am working for the peo...
THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS. — This abrupt introduction of the idea of circumcision would be difficult to understand, were it not for the knowledge of the enforcement of Jewish observance so s...
(8-15) The general exhortation of the previous verses is now emphasised by a solemn warning against deadly speculative error. Now, (1) _the character of that error in itself_ is described with apparen...
CHAPTER 2 THE TRUE CIRCUMCISION Colossians 2:11 (R.V.) THERE are two opposite tendencies ever at work in human nature to corrupt religion. One is of the intellect; the other of the senses. The one i...
PAUL URGES HIS READERS NOT TO BE BEGUILED BY PLAUSIBLE WORDS, BUT TO HOLD CHRIST FAST AS THE PRINCIPLE OF MORAL CONDUCT. THEY MUST LET NO ONE TAKE THEM CAPTIVE BY DECEITFUL PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN TRADIT...
The reference to circumcision seems to come in abruptly. But probably it stands in close connexion with what has gone before. For the return to the principalities and powers in Colossians 2:15 shows t...
ESTABLISHED IN THEIR FAITH Colossians 2:1 If you know Christ, you can lay your hand on the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. They are matters of daily experience. The Apostle's aim in this chapter i...
If for a moment we glance back at the passage beginning with 1:24 and ending with 2:3, we find reference to a threefold mystery: the first, the Church, which is the Body of Christ; then the secret of...
The Circumcision of Christ The Jews stressed the importance of a physical circumcision. In Christ, sinful ways, to which our fleshly desires lead, are cut off. The "circumcision of Christ" may be his...
(9) In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the (p) body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (9) Now he deals precisely against th...
(11) In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein...
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
11._In whom ye also are circumcised. _From this it appears, that he has a controversy with the false apostles, who mixed the law with the gospel, and by that means made Christ have, as it were, two fa...
Thus we have a double ministry, as well as a double preeminence of Christ, and a double reconciliation; and each having a similar relationship the one to the other: Christ, the Head of all things in h...
IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED,.... This is said to prevent an objection that might be made to the perfection of these Gentile believers, because they were not circumcised; for the Jews thought that...
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Ver. 11. _Made without hands_] Oh, how honour...
Col. 2:11. "In putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ." If this means the outward circumcision, with which Christ was circumcised, our sins are put off by Christ'...
_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...
YE ARE CIRCUMCISED; have experienced that spiritual renovation, that cutting off or renouncing of sin, the necessity of which circumcision taught. WITHOUT HANDS; literal circumcision was made with han...
CHRIST THE SOURCE OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE (vs.1-10) In verse 1 the unselfish faith and love of the apostle shines beautifully. He was as deeply concerned for believers who had not seen him as he was...
New Men in Christ - 2:10-15 10AND YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM, WHO IS THE HEAD OF ALL PRINCIPALITY AND POWER. Those who are in Christ - are complete. What else do we need? Christ is our head, making ou...
IN WHOM YE WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED WITH. CIRCUMCISION NOT MADE WITH HANDS, IN THE PUTTING OFF OF THE BODY OF THE FLESH, IN THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST; 'IN WHOM' -in Christ. 'YE WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED...
8-17 There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties; a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God, and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philoso...
IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS: he removes what they who are addicted to superstition might suggest, as if there were somewhat defective to a completeness in...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV These things, then, were given for a sign; but the signs were not unsymbolical, that is, neither unmeaning nor to no purpose, inasmuch as they were given by a wise A...
Colossians 2:11 In G1722 Him G3739 also G2532 circumcised G4059 (G5681) circumcision G4061 hands G886 by G1722
‘In whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism in which you w...
1. _Warning Against being Led Away through the Philosophy of the False Teachers_. This section, which is most directly in opposition to the errors at Colossae, is introduced by a paragraph, expressing...
Colossians 2:11. IN WHOM YE WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED. ‘ Also' belongs to the verb, not to ye, and a past fact is spoken of (comp. Colossians 2:12-13); hence ‘were' instead of ‘are.' WITH A (not, ‘the')...
YE WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED (κα περιετμηθητε). First aorist passive indicative of περιτεμνω, to circumcise. But used here as a metaphor in a spiritual sense as in Romans 2:29 "the circumcision of the...
THE SINS OF Omit "the sins of....
Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:_ That is, keep on as you began. Christ was enough for you when, as poor, guilty sinners, you came and trusted...
Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:_ Do not go away from him. You have received him; keep to him. Whatever he was to you at first, let him be that...
Colossians 2:1. _For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;_ Paul had not met these Colossian Christ...
CONTENTS: Godhead incarnate in Christ. Danger of those who would entice away from Christ. Philosophy and legality, mysticism and asceticism. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Believers who u...
Colossians 2:1. _I would that ye knew what great conflict I have,_ in the inward feelings of my heart and wrestlings of prayer, _for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many,_ in the adjacent di...
IN UNION WITH HIM. Some were saying every Christian must be circumcised. But this had already been rejected by the Holy Spirit [Acts 15:1-29]. Christ's own circumcision is spiritual....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:11 IN HIM ALSO YOU WERE CIRCUMCISED. Paul here uses circumcision to picture a spiritual (MADE WITHOUT HANDS) action. He describes it as putting off the body of
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:4 The Dangerous Teaching at Colossae. Paul delivers a series of warnings about the teaching that threatens the Colossian church. In doing so, he also provides important...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 2:11. IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED … BY THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.—What to the Jew was a bodily act, at best symbolical and of no value otherwise, was...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 2:1 SECTION IV. THE APOSTLE'S CONCERN FOR THE COLOSSI. AN CHURCH. So far the contents of the letter have been of a general and preparatory character. New the writer be
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Colossians, chapter two. Paul had never visited Colosse. He had heard of the church from Epaphras, who was the minister there, who had told Paul of the love that the...
2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Acts 17:24; Acts 7:48;...
Not made with hands. Compare Mark 14:58; 2 Corinthians 5:1. In allusion to the literal circumcision insisted on by the false teachers. In the putting off [ε ν τ η α π ε κ δ υ σ ε ι]. Only here in the...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Colossians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the second chapter of Colossians, we wish to especially note the first verse, under the theme: "The Preacher's Longings after...
By whom also ye have been circumcised — Ye have received the spiritual blessings typified of old by circumcision. With a circumcision not performed with hands — By an inward, spiritual operation. In p...
The apostle had asserted before, that we ARE COMPLETE IN CHRIST: He proves it now, thus; we want not circumcision: Why? Because we have in Christ the thing signified by circumcision, namely, the spiri...