Of this opinion are Chrysostom, OEcumenius, and Theophylact, Estius, Böhmer, Huther, and Meyer, the Syriac version, and the editors Lachmann and Tischendorf. Your Hidden Life Now; perhaps this could be … It is a law of the Divine dealings that His strength is ‘made perfect in weakness.’ God leads us in to a darkened room to show us His wonders. ‘Patience and longsuffering with joyfulness’ seems at first but a poor result of such a force, but it comes from a heart that was under no illusions as to the facts of human life, and it finds a response in us all. Colossians 1:9-11. ς αὐτοῦ, εἰς πᾶσαν ὑπομονὴν καὶ μακροθυμίαν, In all power being empowered, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. The semblance of moral omnipotence is communicated to it, and it easily surmounts frailty, pain, sorrow, and death, for the apostle a fourth time employs πάσῃ. It is more trying to virtue to bear than to act: or, as a-Lapide says, fortia agere Romanum est, aiebat Scaevola, sed fortia pati Christianum est. He will breathe His own grace into us, and speak to our feeble and perchance sorrowful hearts, as He had done long before Paul’s words to the Colossians, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee, and my strength is made perfect in weakness.’. Throughout this prayer, therefore, the Apostle has never gone beyond the line of his own personal experience. Neither does it occur in the classical, though it is used by the ecclesiastical writers. August 1, 2010. His prayer that they might lead lives worthy of their Lord––and that they might grow and be made strong. The difference is joy. Colossians ‘ALL POWER’ Colossians 1:11 {R.V.}. [Note: _ The Book of Colossians. 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. The use of the correlate noun and participle intensifies the meaning. That they might be strengthened with ‘all power’, that is with all the power that has its source in ‘the might of His glory’. Dynamite is like powder, but infinitely more so. The strengthening under consideration falls into the moral and ethical realm. Here again the Apostle touches the very line of the teaching of Christ. 1. 11 Outlines . According to 3:1, where is Christ and what is his role there? Amplified: PAUL, AN apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah), by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother,. Retaining with Meyer and others the full force of the syntax, we cannot, with Luther, Junker, Beza, Storr, Flatt, Bähr, and Davenant, resolve the idiom thus-His glorious or highest might; nor can we with Böhmer make the clause mean-that might which is His glory; nor can we with Grotius and Valpy identify τῆς δόξης with the τῆς ἰσχύος of Ephesians 1:19; nor, finally, can we with Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard understand by His glory “His Son Christ Jesus.” The glory of God possesses a peculiar might, and that might is not love simply, as Huther imagines. dunamoo. "..realize the God-like in spiritual heroism, so as to resist evil, overcome temptation, banish fear, surmount difficulties, embrace opportunities of well-doing...and prove that they are able to rise above everything before which unaided humanity sinks and succumbs." Paul prays that the Colossians may be strengthened so they might have "great endurance and patience" (1:11) These are related words. So at once the soul is lifted up from its own dependence, and from all its collateral relations, to the very fount and origin of strength, to the very almightiness of God himself. But believers in the present state are not perfect, they have not arrived at the ultimate goal. But when we contrast what we have by God’s gift and what we have in our personal experience and use in our daily life, the contrast may well bring shame, even though the contrast brings to us hope to lighten the shame. As you read 3:1-11, what especially interested you or brought questions to your mind? Read Colossians 2:11-3:11. Colossians 1:18 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ]Colossians 1:18, NIV: "And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy." "Because of the cross, we can live in great confidence and joy that all the things that are so wrong will be made right and that Christ has already begun putting all things right. The Apostle Paul has been speaking of his ceaseless prayer on behalf of the Colossians: that they might be ‘filled with the Knowledge of His will’ and ‘increasing in the Knowledge of God’ (Colossians 1:9-10). But we do not see any propriety in such a connection, for the participle carries the idea of joy along with it. ‘Strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory (His glorious might) unto all patience and longsuffering with joy.’. God offers to give us strength, so we can be strong, even when falsely accused (1 Corinthians 10:13). But, not to notice other varieties of opinion, we incline to give the words a more extended signification than to resignation, or quietness under injury. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power: укрепляясь всякою силою, терпении и великодушии, μακροθυμεῖ γάρ τις πρὸς ἐκείνους οὓς δυνατὸν καὶ ἀμύνασθαι, "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. He endures and conquers, but it is not without vehement passion and spiritual struggles, occasionally verging on a repining and rebellion, of which he bitterly repents (Job 41:6). "it does not mean patience in the sense of simply bowing the head and letting the tide of events flow over one. Commentary, Colossians 1:11-20, Mariam Kammell, Christ the King, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2013. Of course, at each moment, our capacity of receiving is for the time being the practical limit of our possession, but that capacity varies indefinitely, and may be, and should be, indefinitely and continuously increasing. is endurance, steadfastness in face of trials, temptations and persecutions; . Compare App-172. We draw our strength from heaven. Sadly, the people we tend to be the least longsuffering with, are those people we claim to love the most, i.e. Sermon Bible Commentary Colossians 3:11 Christ All, and in all. He says that he had learned in whatsoever state he was therein to be content; that, indeed, may be regarded as a passive experience; but in another instance he declares that he rejoices exceedingly in tribulations also. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. “Patience and longsuffering”: These terms are closely related and refer to the attitude one has during trials. November 21, 2010. More than a merely human strength is requisite for a proper, endurance of trials, injuries, and wrongs, in order that the soul shall be kept in purity and peace, without resentment or disturbance of its rest in Christ, and also for that. "Strengthened with all might" - the power of God is one of the great themes and propositions of the Bible. (Barclay p. 110). "Long endurance that does not retaliate" (Robertson p. 476). Paul often strengthened the churches by teaching them (Acts 14:22; Acts 16:4-5). Note that such strengthening is connected with "knowing his will" (1:10). His gifts are proportioned to His resources. It describes that peculiar spiritual condition in which believers bring forth fruit, and grow, and thus walk worthy of Christ. The preposition, moreover, indicates a connection with the preceding nouns, or shows the concomitant of this imparted power; and therefore, with Luther, Grotius, Zanchius, Hyperius, Gomarus, De Wette, Bähr, Baumgarten-Crusius, Junker, Steiger, and Olshausen, we keep the words as they stand in the Received Text. Commentary on Colossians 1:15-23 (Read Colossians 1:15-23) Christ in his human nature, is the visible discovery of the invisible God, and he that hath seen Him hath seen the Father. 1. This gives further testimony to the fact that Paul’s epistles (letters) were meant to be circulated and read to all churches (4:16). Garland Elkins, Thomas B. Warren Editors. In this manner he puts them in mind of their own weakness, for he says, that they will not be strong otherwise than by the Lord’s help; and not only so, but with the view of magnifying this exercise of grace the more, he adds, according to his glorious power. They need not be afraid, for it can not blow out anything but sin, which is bound to come out, or the devil will get them. But the former view seems preferable. I. Christ is the substance or fulness of "all" things—that which really goes to make the being of everything. Nor is the Apostle content that patience and longsuffering should express the soul"s communion with God. More than a merely human strength is requisite for a proper endurance of trials, injuries, and wrongs, in order that the soul shall be kept in purity and peace, without resentment or disturbance of its rest in Christ, and also for that longsuffering which is forbearance toward opposers, gainsayers, persecutors, and those who injure us, as well as for the active duties of religion. But even the fact of being strengthened with all might according to the glorious power of God, or the strength of his glory, does not relieve saintly experience from its more chastening and humbling aspects. Comm. There seems to be no reference in ., as Alford supposes, to their attitude in conflict with error.— : not to be taken (as by Mey., Ell., Hofm., Weiss, Abb.) As His own nature is for ever outworking in ceaseless acts of beneficence, so His strength, lodged in a believer, loses not its original and distinctive energy. How different the patience which God gives by His own imparted strength, from the sullen submission or hysterical abandonment to sorrow, or the angry rebellion characterising Godless grief! Focusing on 3:1-4, what ideas are repeated in these verses that connect with what you read in Colossians 2(give verses)? (See Philippians 1:18-19; Philippians 2:17-18.) Thus as they considered His present glory and authority, and His almighty power revealed in that glory, they should know that it revealed something of the power on which they could draw, and this would enable them to walk worthily of the Lord. Greek: en pase dunamei dunamoumenoi kata to kratos tes doxes autou eis pasan hu pomonen kai makrothumian, meta ch aras. The way of Christ is joyful ‘patient endurance and longsuffering’, bearing with others, putting up with their weaknesses, and seeking to help them while at the same time being careful not to be caught in the same trap, and having joy in doing so. It is no less rendered necessary by the nature of the divine strength imparted, which is ever communicating itself, and like the ocean cannot but pour so much of its fulness as can be received into every creek and crack on its shore. The main petition is for wisdom and spiritual understanding applied chiefly, as is to be carefully noted, to the knowledge of God’s will . The most glorious image, though it has a head of gold, ends in feet, ‘part of iron and part of clay.’, And if this ideal of many-sided power stands in contrast with the limitations of human strength, how does it rebuke and condemn the very partial manifestations of a very narrow and one-sided power which we who profess to have received it set forth! 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