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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Colossians 2:13 - 2:13
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you, being dead - formerly (Eph 2:1, Eph 2:2); even as Christ was among the dead, before that God raised Him “from the dead” (Col 2:12).
sins - rather as Greek is translated at end of this verse, “trespasses,” literally, “failings aside” from God’s ways; actual transgressions, as that of Adam.
uncircumcision of your flesh - your not having put off the old fleshly nature, the carnal foreskin, or original sin, which now by spiritual circumcision, that is, conversion and baptism, you have put off.
he quickened - God “quickened together with Him (Christ).” Just as Christ’s resurrection proved that He was delivered from the sin laid on Him, so our spiritual quickening proves that we have been forgiven our sins (1Pe 3:22; 1Pe 4:1, 1Pe 4:2).
forgiven you - So Vulgate and Hilary. But the oldest manuscripts read, “us,” passing from the particular persons, the Colossians, to the general Church (Col 1:14; Eph 1:7).
all trespasses - Greek, “all our trespasses.”