Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew. "Where there cannot be
Greek and Jew" (Revised Version). In Christ there can be no distinction
of race, or of caste. The Greek, when he is converted, becomes a new
being; not a Greek, but a Christian. So of Jew, Roman, Scythian. They
are all naturalized into a new kingdom, that of Christ, and belong to a
new holy nation (1 Peter 2:9). All the old barriers to fraternity are
removed.
Barbarian. The Greeks long called all who were not Greeks
barbarians, but in the apostolic age applied it more particularly to
those who had not accepted the Greek civilization.
Bond [nor] free. The master and the slave were on a level in the
church. Max Muller says,
``"Humanity" is a word which you look for in vain in Plato
and Aristotle; the idea of mankind as one family, as the
children of one God, is an idea of Christian growth.'
But Christ [is] all, and in all. He is the life of all the new
creation, and in all.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ephesians 1:10
Colossians 3:11
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