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Put on therefore: as he had mentioned some particular vices of the old man they were to put off, Col_3:8, he doth here infer, that they might be complete in Christ, there be particular virtues and graces of the new man they are to put on, or, being new creatures, continually to exercise themselves in.
As the elect of God, holy and beloved; chosen of God before all time, and effectually called in time from the rest of mankind; see Joh_15:16 Rom_8:29,30 Eph 1:4,5 2Th_2:13: saints not only by obsignation, but renewed by the sanctifying Spirit, Col_1:2 1Pe_1:2; beloved with a gratuitous and special love of complacency, Joh_14:21 Rom_1:7 1Th_1:4.
Bowels of mercies; he would have us put on, i.e. exercise, (being sanctified by the Spirit), mercy, not simply, but according to the Hebrew phrase, bowels of mercies, i.e. tendernesses of compassions, resenting the miseries of our brethren, as sharing with them in their sufferings, from our very heart: see Luk_6:36 Rom_12:15 Gal_6:2 Eph_4:32 1Pe_3:8.
Kindness; courtesy and goodness, Gal_5:22; endeavouring to succour one another in all offices of benignity, 2Co_6:6 1Pe_5:14.
Humbleness of mind; a sincere (not an affected) lowliness of spirit: See Poole on "Eph_4:2", See Poole on "Phi_2:3".
Meekness; gentleness and mildness, receiving one another with an open heart and pleasant countenance: see Gal_5:13,23 6:1 1Th_2:7.
Long-suffering; patience, bearing affronts and outrages, with other vexatious afflictions, without exasperation, abiding sedate after many wrongs offered, Col_1:11 Act_5:41 2Ti_2:10 4:2 1Pe_4:16.