{"id":2092,"date":"2012-12-17T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2023-02-18T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T22:58:18","slug":"colossians-39-11-put-off-and-put-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 3:9-11 \u2014 Put Off and Put On"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>do not lie (v.9) \u2014 tense indicates continuing action \u2014 &#8220;Stop lying&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>old (v.9) = that which belongs to a past period and is worn out<\/h3>\n<h3>new (v.10) \u2014 in contrast to that which is of long duration, new in time<\/h3>\n<h3>renewed (v.10) \u2014 continuous present tense<\/h3>\n<h3>renewed in knowledge (v.10) \u2014 constantly taking on more of the image of the Creator<\/h3>\n<h3>Him (v.10 \u2014 1st use) \u2014 God<\/h3>\n<h3>him (v.10 \u2014 2nd use) \u2014 the new man<\/h3>\n<h3>where there is neither (v.11) = where there cannot be<\/h3>\n<h3>barbarian (v.11)\u00a0= one who spoke an unintelligible language<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The various groups mentioned have to do with distinctions of national privilege (Greek and Jew), legal or ceremonial standing (circumcision and uncircumcision), culture (barbarian and Scythian, the latter thought of as the lowest of the barbarians), and social caste (bondman, freeman). \u2014 Vaughan, page 98.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">__________<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The reference is probably shaped by the conditions of the Colossian Church, where the form of error was partly Judaistic and ceremonial, insisting on circumcision; where the pretense of superior knowledge affected contempt for the rude barbarian, and where the distinction of master and slave had place as elsewhere. \u2014 Wuest, pages 221-222.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>all (v.11 \u20141st use) \u2014 all things<\/h3>\n<h3>So distinctions don&#8217;t matter \u2014 only Christ matters.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\u00a0Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10\u00a0and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11\u00a0where there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2092\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}