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Colossians 3:11
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9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
10 and have put on the new man who ais renewed in knowledge baccording to the image of Him who ccreated him,  
11 where there is neither aGreek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, bbut Christ is all and in all.  

Character of the New Man

12 Therefore, aas the elect of God, holy and beloved, bput on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;  
13 abearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.  
14 aBut above all these things bput on love, which is the cbond of perfection.  
15 And let athe peace of God rule in your hearts, bto which also you were called cin one body; and dbe thankful.  
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another ain psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.  
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Colossians 3:11

Where (opou). In this "new man" in Christ. Cf. Galatians 3:28.

There cannot be (ouk eni). Eni is the long (original) form of en and estin is to be understood. "There does not exist." This is the ideal which is still a long way ahead of modern Christians as the Great War proved. Race distinctions (Greek ellhn and Jew Ioudaiov) disappear in Christ and in the new man in Christ. The Jews looked on all others as Greeks (Gentiles). Circumcision (peritomh) and uncircumcision (akrobustia) put the Jewish picture with the cleavage made plainer (cf. Eph. 2). The Greeks and Romans regarded all others as barbarians (barbaroi, Romans 1:14), users of outlandish jargon or gibberish, onomatopoetic repetition (bar-bar).

A Scythian (Skuqhv) was simply the climax of barbarity, bar-baris barbariores (Bengel), used for any rough person like our "Goths and Vandals."

Bondman (doulov, from dew, to bind),

freeman (eleuqerov, from erxomai, to go). Class distinctions vanish in Christ. In the Christian churches were found slaves, freedmen, freemen, masters. Perhaps Paul has Philemon and Onesimus in mind. But labour and capital still furnish a problem for modern Christianity.

But Christ is all (alla panta Xristov). Demosthenes and Lucian use the neuter plural to describe persons as Paul does here of Christ. The plural panta is more inclusive than the singular pan would be.

And in all (kai en pasin). Locative plural and neuter also. "Christ occupies the whole sphere of human life and permeates all its developments" (Lightfoot). Christ has obliterated the words barbarian, master, slave, all of them and has substituted the word adelfov (brother).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Colossians 3:11:

Acts 28:2
Romans 1:14
Romans 13:12
1 Corinthians 15:28
Ephesians 2:15
James 1:17

 

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