Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Buried with him in baptism - See the notes at Romans 6:4.
Wherein also - In which ordinance, or by virtue of that which is signified by the ordinance.
Ye are risen with him - From the death of sin to the life of religion; Notes, Romans 6:4-5; compare the notes at Ephesians 2:5-6.
Through the faith of the operation of God - By a firm belief on the agency of God in raising him up; that is, a belief of the fact that God has raised him from the dead. The resurrection of Christ is often represented as the foundation of all our hopes; and, as he was raised from the grave to die no more, so, in virtue of that we are raised from the death of sin to eternal spiritual life. The belief of this is shown by our baptism, whatever be the mode in which that ordinance is performed, and as well shown in one mode as another.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Colossians 2:12:
Leviticus 14:7
Deuteronomy 10:16
Joshua 5:3
Romans 6:4
Ephesians 2:1
Ephesians 2:6
Colossians 2:15
Colossians 2:23
Colossians 3:1
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