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The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-10

Christ's fulness the Christian's safeguard. While thus abiding and walking in Christ ( Colossians 2:6 , Colossians 2:7 ), the Colossians still needed the warning, "Be on your guard;" "Take heed," etc. In the words that follow we find— I. A SUGGESTIVE SKETCH OF THE FALSE TEACHING THAT ASSAILED THE COLOSSIANS . 1 . It came in the garb of philosophy. Real philosophy is nowhere condemned by the apostle. The term itself warns against its abuse. It is attributed... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

SECTION V. THE CHRISTIAN 'S COMPLETENESS IN CHRIST . The apostle has first defined his own doctrinal position in the theological deliverance of Colossians 1:15-20 , and has then skilfully brought himself into suitable personal relations with his readers by the statements and appeals of Col 1:23-2:7. And now, after a general indication in Colossians 2:4 of the direction in which he is about to strike, he unmasks the battery he has been all the while preparing, and delivers his ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

Christ our All. Having laid down the truth about the Trinity as the great want of the race, Paul proceeds to warn the Colossians against the so called philosophers. "There are certain men," it has been well observed, "who, because they possess somewhat more learning than others, think, when they become converts to the gospel, that they are great acquisitions to the cause; they officiously extend the shield of their learning over their more unlearned brethren, and try to prove where... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

Philosophy. I. FALSE PHILOSOPHY . "Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit." It was a real danger (as the expression bears) against which the apostle warns the Colossians. He refers indefinitely to the teachers (any one), but he strikingly describes what their work would be. The work of the Christian teachers on them in their heathen state, as described in Colossians 1:13 , Colossians 1:14 , had been a deliverance, a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

The complete man. The one thought around which we may let the many, varied, and some of them strange ideas of this paragraph gather, is the conception of the complete man. The words teach us— I. THAT THE COMPLETE MAN IS NOT LED AWAY BY ERROR IN THOUGHT OR BY EVIL IN LIFE . Any one who is so led is incomplete. And the apostle is here warning his readers to be on their guard, test, having once been emancipated from such captivity, they should be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9

Because in him dwelleth all the fulness (or, completeness ) of the Godhead bodily ( Colossians 1:19 ; Philippians 2:6-8 ; Romans 1:3 , Romans 1:4 ; Romans 9:5 ; John 1:1 , John 1:14 ). In Colossians 1:18-20 we viewed a series of events; here we have an abiding fact. The whole plenitude of our Lord's Divine-human person and powers, as the complete Christ, was definitively constituted when, in the exercise of his kingly prerogative, "he sat down on the right hand of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9

The full divinity of Christ. The Gnostic error which St. Paul seems to be opposing was twofold. It denied that all the fulness of the Godhead resided in Christ, teaching that, while the highest effluence of that fulness was in him, other effluences which completed it were distributed through the angels, in descending gradations of being. At the same time, in its abhorrence of matter, it refused to believe that so much divinity as it allowed to Christ could dwell in a human earthly body,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9-10

Christ the Fulness of the Godhead, and our relationship to him. "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; and in him ye are made full, who is the Head of all principality and power." The apostle is here condemning one of the false principles that underlay the teaching of the Gnostics—the substitution of angelic mediators for Christ. I. CHRIST 'S TRUE DEITY AND TRUE HUMANITY . 1 . He is no mere emanation from the supreme God, but "all the fulness of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:10

And (because) ye are in him made complete; or fulfilled ( Ephesians 1:3 , Ephesians 1:7-11 , Ephesians 1:23 ; Ephesians 3:18 , Ephesians 3:19 ; Ephesians 4:13 ; Philippians 4:19 ; Galatians 3:14 , Galatians 3:24 ; Galatians 5:1 , Galatians 5:4 ; 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 2:2 ). A complete Christ makes his people complete; his plēroma is our plērosis. Finding the whole fulness of God brought within our reach and engaged in our behalf ( Philippians... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:10

The fulness of humanity. I. WHEREIN THE FULNESS OF HUMANITY CONSISTS . St: Paul has been writing of the fulness of the Godhead. He now turns his thoughts to our poor, naked, hungry humanity, and he shows how there is a completion and a satisfaction that may be called our fulness, in some way corresponding to the fulness of God. 1 . The full satisfaction of our wants. We are empty, hungry, and needy. We require pardon for sin; strength for trouble, temptation, and toil;... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:9-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 2:10

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