Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
In the body of his flesh—the element in which His reconciling sufferings had place. Compare Colossians 1:24, "afflictions of Christ in my flesh" (I Peter 2:24). Angels who have not a "body of flesh" are not in any way our reconciling mediators, as your false teachers assert, but He, the Lord of angels, who has taken our flesh, that in it He might atone for our fallen manhood.
through death—rather as Greek, "through His death" (which could only take place in a body like ours, of flesh, Hebrews 2:14). This implies He took on Him our true and entire manhood. Flesh is the sphere in which His human sufferings could have place (compare Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 2:15).
to present you— (Ephesians 5:27). The end of His reconciling atonement by death.
holy—positively; and in relation to God.
unblamable . . . unreprovable—negatively. "Without blemish" (as the former Greek word is translated as to Jesus, our Head, I Peter 1:19) in one's self. Irreproachable (the Greek for the second word, one who gives no occasion for his being brought to a law court) is in relation to the world without. Sanctification, as the fruit, is here treated of; justification, by Christ's reconciliation, as the tree, having preceded (Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:26-27; Titus 2:14). At the same time, our sanctification is regarded here as perfect in Christ, into whom we are grafted at regeneration or conversion, and who is "made of God unto us (perfect) sanctification" (I Corinthians 1:30; I Peter 1:2; Judges 1:1): not merely progressive sanctification, which is the gradual development of the sanctification which Christ is made to the believer from the first.
in his sight—in God's sight, at Christ's appearing.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Colossians 1:22:
Ephesians 1:4
Colossians 1:23
Colossians 1:28
Hebrews 10:5
Hebrews 10:10
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