17 Cf. Rom. 6:6-11.
17Cf. Rom. 6:6-11.
18E. K. Simpson, The Pastoral Epistles (London, 1954), p. 63, quoting from an unspecified source.
19E. S. Hartland in ERE 8 (Edinburgh, 1915), 44-57 (s.v. “Life-Token”); cf. C. M. Draper, “‘Your Life is Hid with Christ in God’ (Colossians iii.3),” ExT 27 (1915-16), 427.
20H. C. G. Moule, Colossian Studies (London, 1898), p. 190.
21Cf. John 1:18, ὁ ὤν εἰς τòν ϰόλπον τοῡ πατϱός.
22Cf. J. S. Stewart, A Man in Christ (London, 1935), pp. 171-72. Deissmann says, “The faith of Paul is then the union with God which is established in fellowship with Christ,” and he describes Christians as ἒνθεοɩ ἐν χϱɩστῷ ’Iησοῡ (Paul, E.T. [London, 1926], pp. 164-65). But his endeavor to illustrate this spiritual relationship by means of a geometrical diagram (p. 298) does not really help to understand Paul’s thought.