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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Colossians 1:21 - 1:21
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The Colossians are included in this general reconciliation (compare Eph 2:1, Eph 2:12).
sometime - “once.”
alienated - from God and salvation: objectively banished from God, through the barrier which God’s justice interposed against your sin: subjectively estranged through the alienation of your own wills from God. The former is the prominent thought (compare Rom 5:10), as the second follows, “enemies in your mind.” “Actual alienation makes habitual ‘enemies’” [Bengel].
in your mind - Greek, “in your understanding” or “thought” (Eph 2:3; Eph 4:18).
by wicked works - rather as Greek, “in your wicked works” (wicked works were the element in which your enmity subsisted).
yet now - Notwithstanding the former alienation, now that Christ has come, God hath completely reconciled, or restored to His friendship again (so the Greek, compare Note, see on Col 1:20).