Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

Colossians 2:12

Buried [σ υ ν τ α φ ε ν τ ε ς]. See on Romans 6:4. The aorist tense puts the burial as contemporaneous with the circumcision. Ye were circumcised when ye were buried, etc.

In baptism [ε ν τ ω β α π τ ι σ μ α τ ι ο ρ β α π τ ι σ μ ω]. The article, the baptism points to the familiar rite, or may have the force of your.

Wherein also [ε ν ω κ α ι]. Referring to baptism, not to Christ.

Ye were raised with Him [σ υ ν η γ ε ρ θ η τ ε]. The burial and the raising are both typified in baptism. The raising is not the resurrection to eternal life at Christ's second coming, but the moral resurrection to a new life. This corresponds with the drift of the entire passage, with the figurative sense of buried, and with Romans 6:4, which is decisive.

Through the faith of the operation of God. Not the faith which God works, but your faith in God's working : faith in God's energy as displayed in Christ's resurrection. Hence the emphasis which is laid on faith in the resurrection. See 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:4 (note); Romans 10:9; Ephesians 1:19. vers. 11, 12 should be compared with Romans 6:2-6.

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Colossians 2:12

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