Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Colossians 3
Your bodily members, or rather the vices of which they are the instruments.
G. TraS-of, unnatural lust. Rom. i. 26.
You were habituated to such excesses, when you lived under the influence of those passions.
With thankfulness. " He either says this, because God has given these things to us through grace, or he speaks of the canticles as being in grace, acceptable, or they admonish and teach one another in grace, or because they had these gifts through grace, or it means from the grace of the Spirit." St. Chrysostom.
G. P. "the Lord." The Vulgate readi«g is adopted by critics. '^ 1 Cor. X. 31. Tw QiZ «.'jli Tr'xrpl. To God who is also Father.
The heavenly inheritance as your reward. G. P. "for ye serve." Lach- mann omits "for," and adopts the Vulgate reading in the imperative, which is supported by six manuscripts and many versions.
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