Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And you (kai umav). Emphatic position, object of the verb sunezwopoihsen (did he quicken) and repeated (second umav). You Gentiles as he explains.
Being dead through your trespasses (nekrouv ontav toiv paraptwmasin). Moral death, of course, as in Romans 6:11; Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:5. Correct text does not have en, but even so paraptwmasin (from parapiptw, to fall beside or to lapse, Hebrews 6:6), a lapse or misstep as in Matthew 6:14; Romans 5:15-18; Galatians 6:1, can be still in the locative, though the instrumental makes good sense also.
And the uncircumcision of your flesh (kai th akroboustiai thv sarkov umwn). "Dead in your trespasses and your alienation from God, of which the uncircumcision of your flesh was a symbol" (Abbott). Clearly so, "the uncircumcision" used merely in a metaphorical sense.
Did he quicken together with him (sunezwopoihsen sun autw). First aorist active indicative of the double compound verb sunzwopoiew, to make alive (zwos, poiew) with (sun, repeated also with autw, associative instrumental), found only here and in Ephesians 2:5, apparently coined by Paul for this passage. Probably qeov (God) is the subject because expressly so stated in Ephesians 2:4 f. and because demanded by sun autw here referring to Christ. This can be true even if Christ be the subject of hrken in verse Colossians 2:14.
Having forgiven us (xarisamenov hmin). First aorist middle participle of xarizomai, common verb from xariv (favour, grace). Dative of the person common as in Colossians 3:13. The act of forgiving is simultaneous with the quickening, though logically antecedent.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Colossians 2:13:
Ephesians 2:5
Hebrews 6:1
1 Peter 4:6
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