The Biblical Illustrator - Colossians 4:17
Colossians 4:17And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry.Often men who were once faithful grow negligent in the ministry.1. Sometimes from discouragements from their people, either because they profit not, or because they weary their teachers.2. Sometimes this comes from the corruption of their own natures; they grow soon weary of God’s work, or, having taken more work to do than they are sufficient for, they grow to neglect all; or they are drawn away with the love of the world.3.... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Colossians 4:16
Colossians 4:16When this Epistle is read among you, cause it to be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans.I. The apostle wished his Epistle to be read in the whole Church. Hence observe--1. That the sacred Scriptures were not written for the clergy, but for all Christian people, and that the ordinary reading of the Scriptures obtained in the primitive Church (1 Thessalonians 5:27). And that this was in a language understood by the people is plain from Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and other... read more