Colossians 1:24

Ransom · Jul 5, 2002

Anyone care to take a stab at exegeting Col. 1:24?

Chris Temple · Jul 5, 2002

Originally posted by Ransom:
Anyone care to take a stab at exegeting Col. 1:24?
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The best exegesis I have heard or read in CALLED TO SUFFER AND REJOICE by John Piper . Outstanding.

Ransom · Jul 5, 2002

Thanks, Chris, that is exactly the sort of exposition I was hoping for.

Aaron · Jul 5, 2002

That certainly is part of it, but not all. I think John Calvin has a more full explanation:

And fill up what is wanting. The particle and I understand as meaning for, for he assigns a reason why he is joyful in his sufferings, because he is in this thing a partner with Christ, and nothing happier can be desired than this partnership. He also brings forward a consolation common to all the pious, that in all tribulations, especially in so far as they suffer anything for the sake of the gospel, they are partakers of the cross of Christ, that they may enjoy fellowship with him in a blessed resurrection. Nay more, he declares that there is thus filled up what is wanting in the affliction of Christ. For as he speaks in Romans 8:29, Whom God elected, he also hath predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ, that he may be the first-born among the brethren. Farther, we know that there is so great a unity between Christ and his
members, that the name of Christ sometimes includes the whole body, as in 1 Corinthians. 12:12, for while discoursing there respecting the Church, he comes at length to the conclusion, that in Christ the same thing holds as in the human body. As, therefore, Christ has suffered once in his own person, so he suffers daily in his members, and in this way there are filled up those sufferings which the Father hath appointed for his body by his decree. Here we have a second consideration, which ought to bear up our minds and comfort them in afflictions, that it is thus fixed and determined by the providence of God, that we must be conformed to Christ in the endurance of the cross, and that the fellowship that we have with him extends to this also.
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