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10 and you are complete in Him, who is the ahead of all principality and power.  

Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also acircumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by bputting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,  
12 aburied with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through bfaith in the working of God, cwho raised Him from the dead.  
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14 ahaving wiped out the1 handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  
15 aHaving disarmed bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.  
16 So let no one ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a1 festival or a new moon or sabbaths,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Colossians 2:12

Translate, "Having been buried with Him in your baptism." The past participle is here coincident in time with the preceding verb, "ye were (Greek) circumcised." Baptism is regarded as the burial of the old carnal life, to which the act of immersion symbolically corresponds; and in warm climates where immersion is safe, it is the mode most accordant with the significance of the ordinance; but the spirit of the ordinance is kept by affusion, where immersion would be inconvenient or dangerous; to insist on literal immersion in all cases would be mere legal ceremonialism (Romans 6:3-4).

are risen—rather as Greek, "were raised with Him."

through the faith, etc.—by means of your faith in the operation of God; so "faith of," for "faith in" (Ephesians 3:12; Philippians 3:9). Faith in God's mighty operation in raising again Jesus, is saving faith (Romans 4:24; Romans 10:9); and it is wrought in the soul by His same "mighty working" whereby He "raised Jesus from the dead" (Ephesians 1:19-20). BENGEL seems to me (not as ALFORD understands him) to express the latter sense, namely, "Through the faith which is a work of the operation of God who," etc. Ephesians 1:19-20 accords with this; the same mighty power of God is exercised in raising one spiritually dead to the life of faith, as was "wrought in Christ when God raised Him literally from the dead." However, "faith of" usually is "faith in" (Romans 3:22); but there is no grammatical impropriety in understanding it "the faith which is the effect of the operation of God" (Ephesians 2:8; I Thessalonians 2:13). As His literal resurrection is the ground of the power put forth in our spiritual resurrection now, so it is a pledge of our literal resurrection hereafter (Romans 8:11).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Colossians 2:12:

Ephesians 1:19
Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians 4:5
Philippians 3:10
Colossians 2:11
Colossians 2:13
Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:14
2 Timothy 2:11
2 Timothy 2:18
1 Peter 3:22

 

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