Col 3:3. Ἀπεθάνετε, ye are dead) to the earth and to the world, spiritually, ch. Col 2:20.-ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν κέκρυπται, your life is hid) An abbreviated expression in this sense: ye are dead to the world, that ye may live to God; but that life is as yet hid.-κέκρυπται σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ, is hid with Christ) The world knows neither Christ nor Christians, and Christians do not even know distinctly themselves, i.e. one another.