THE CHRISTIAN'S RISEN LIFE AND THE DUTIES IT ENTAILS 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. PARAPHRASE] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only, but His resurrection, go on to participate in His heavenly life, in that heaven where He is, and where... [ Continue Reading ]
AFFECTION] RV 'mind.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE ARE DEAD] RV 'Ye died,' i.e. at conversion. 5-16. The moral life of the Christian. PARAPHRASE. '(5, 6) Since you died and rose with Christ and your life is hidden with Him in God, realise these experiences already ideally yours in putting your sins to death, impurity and covetousness, (7) th... [ Continue Reading ]
BLASPHEMY] RV 'railing.' FILTHY COMMUNICATION] rather, 'abusive speech.'... [ Continue Reading ]
IN KNOWLEDGE] RV 'unto knowledge.'... [ Continue Reading ]
IS] RV 'cannot be.' SCYTHIAN] the extreme barbarian.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHARITY] RV 'love.' BOND OF PERFECTNESS] the bond in which perfection consists. Love is the bond, in the sense that it binds Christians together (not the virtues). 18-COLOSSIANS 41. Reciprocal duties of wives and husbands, children and fathers, slaves and masters.... [ Continue Reading ]
The case of slaves is treated more fully, since the case of Onesimus was engaging Paul's attention. But he wished to keep the gospel clear of any attempt to revolutionise society. It was to be leaven, not dynamite. EYE-SERVICE] i.e. service most zealously performed when the slave is under observatio... [ Continue Reading ]
The meaning is probably that the Christian slave must not suppose, because he is a Christian, that God will deal leniently with his misconduct.... [ Continue Reading ]