Colossenses 1
John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Phillips: I want you to know by this letter that we here are constantly praying for you, and whenever we do we thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (
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Phillips: because you believe in Christ Jesus and because you are showing true Christian love towards other Christians (
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Phillips: We know that you are showing these qualities because you have grasped the hope reserved for you in Heaven - that hope which first became yours when the truth was brought to you. ( Phillips: Touchstone) Young's Literal: because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news, BECAUSE OF THE HOPE LAID UP FOR YOU IN HEAVEN: dia ten elpida ten apokeimenen (PMPFSA) humin en tois ouranois: 1 Pet 1:3,4 Ro 8:18 Ps 31:19 Mt 6:19,20 Col 1:23,27; Acts 23:6; 24:15; 26:6,7; 1Cor 13:13; 15:19; Gal 5:5; Eph 1:18; 2Thes 2:16; Heb 7:19; 1Pet 3:15; 1Jn 3:3 Colossians 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries A DIVINE "LAY AWAY PLAN" Because of the hope - This states the cause or reason of their love. NIV adds "the faith and love that spring from the hope…" What does this imply? HOPE is the root of FAITH (the plant) and of LOVE (the fruit). In other words a believer's hope or confidence in what God will do in the future leads to a greater faith or trust in God and a deepening of love for others. Heard before - Only here in the New Testament, not in Septuagint, and not frequent in classical Greek. It is variously explained as denoting either an undefined period in the past, or as contrasting the earlier Christian teaching with the later heresies, or as related to Paul’s letter (before I wrote), or as related to the fulfilment of the hope (ye have had the hope pre-announced). It occurs several times in Herodotus in this last sense, as 2:5, of one who has heard of Egypt without seeing it: 5:86, of the Aeginetans who had learned beforehand what the Athenians intended. Compare 8:79; 6:16. Xenophon uses it of a horse, which signifies by pricking up its ears what it hears beforehand. In the sense of mere priority of time without the idea of anticipation, Plato: “Hear me once more, though you have heard me say the same before” (“Laws,” vii., 797). I incline to the more general reference, ye heard in the past. The sense of hearing before the fulfilment of the hope would seem rather to require the perfect tense, since the hope still remained unfulfilled. (Vincent) Brian Bell - Paul places hope last, because he saw faith and love springing from it. How does the hope of heaven cause faith & love to come forth? a) As pagans, the colossians had been “w/o hope and w/o God in the world” (Eph 2:12) Then came the Gospel from Epaphras! Hope is “laid up” (stored away, put away for one’s use) which referred to a Royal Persian custom. Hellenistic rulers would lay up in store goods for faithful servants. As