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022 - Verses 14-18 · Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty two of commentary on the Epistle to the
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  Speaker 1: Colossians by John Calvin, translated by Reverend John Pringle. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Verses fourteen to eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Luke the beloved physician and d Maas greet you, Salute
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  Speaker 1: the brethren which are in Laodicea and Ninphis in the
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  Speaker 1: church which is in his house. And when this epistle
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  Speaker 1: is read among you, cause that it be read also
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  Speaker 1: in the church of the Laodoceans, and that ye likewise
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  Speaker 1: read the epistle from Laodosea, and say to Archipas, take
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  Speaker 1: heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that thou fulfill it. The salutation by the hand of
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  Speaker 1: Me Paul, remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Written from Rome to the Colautians by Tychicus and Onesimus.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen Luke saluteth you. I do not agree with those
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  Speaker 1: who understand this to be Luke the evangelist, for I
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  Speaker 1: am of the opinion that he was too well known
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  Speaker 1: to stand in need of such a designation, and he
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  Speaker 1: would have been signalized by a more magnificent eulogium. He
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  Speaker 1: would undoubtedly have called him his fellow helper, or at
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  Speaker 1: least his companion and participant in his conflicts. I rather
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  Speaker 1: conjecture that he was absent at that time, and that
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  Speaker 1: it is another of the same name that is called
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  Speaker 1: a physician, to distinguish him from the other. D mass
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  Speaker 1: of whom he makes mention is undoubtedly the person of
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  Speaker 1: whom he complains that he afterwards deserted him. Two Timothy
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  Speaker 1: four ten, when he speaks of the church which was
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  Speaker 1: in the house of Nymphis, let us bear in mind
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  Speaker 1: that in the instance of one household, a rule is
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  Speaker 1: laid down as to what it becomes all Christian households
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  Speaker 1: to be, that they be so many little churches. Let
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  Speaker 1: everyone therefore know that this charge is laid upon him,
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  Speaker 1: that he is to train up his house in the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the Lord, to keep it under a holy discipline,
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  Speaker 1: and in fine to form in it the likeness of
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  Speaker 1: a church. Sixteen. Let it be read in the church
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  Speaker 1: of the laodo Seans. Hence, though it was addressed to
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  Speaker 1: the Colausians, it was nevertheless necessary that it should be
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  Speaker 1: profitable to others. The same view must be taken of
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  Speaker 1: all the epistles. They were indeed in the first instance
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  Speaker 1: addressed to particular churches. But as they contain doctrine that
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  Speaker 1: is always in force and is common to all ages,
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  Speaker 1: it is of no importance what title they bear, for
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  Speaker 1: the subject matter belongs to us. It is being groundlessly
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  Speaker 1: supposed that the other epistle of which he makes mention
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  Speaker 1: was written by Paul, and those labor under a doubtful
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  Speaker 1: mistake who think that it was written by Paul to
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  Speaker 1: the Laodocians. I have no doubt that it was an
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  Speaker 1: epistle that had been sent to Paul, the perusal of
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  Speaker 1: which might be profitable to the Colautians, as neighboring towns
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  Speaker 1: have usually many things in common. There was, however, an
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly gross imposture in the circumstance that some worthless person
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  Speaker 1: I know not who had the audacity to forge under
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  Speaker 1: this pretext an epistle that is so insipid that nothing
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  Speaker 1: can be conceived to be more foreign to Paul's spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen say to Arcipas, so far as I can conjecture
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  Speaker 1: this Arcupas was in the meantime discharging the office of
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  Speaker 1: pastor during the absence of Paphorus. But perhaps he was
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  Speaker 1: not of such a disposition as to be sufficiently diligent
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  Speaker 1: of himself without being stirred up. Paul, accordingly, would have
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  Speaker 1: him be more fully encouraged by the exhortation of the
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  Speaker 1: whole church. He might have admonished him in his own
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  Speaker 1: name individually, but he gives this charge to the Colossians,
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  Speaker 1: that they may know that they must themselves employ incitements
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  Speaker 1: if they see their pastor cold. And the pastor himself
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  Speaker 1: does not refuse to be admonished by the church. For
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  Speaker 1: the ministers of the Word are endowed with signal authority,
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  Speaker 1: but such at the same time as is not exempt
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  Speaker 1: from laws. Hence, it is necessary that they should show
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  Speaker 1: themselves teachable, if they would duly teach others. As to
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  Speaker 1: Paul's calling attention again to his bonds, he intimates by
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  Speaker 1: this that he was in no slight degree afflicted, for
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  Speaker 1: he was mindful of human infirmity, and without doubt he
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  Speaker 1: felt some twinges of it in himself, inasmuch as he
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  Speaker 1: was so very urgent that all pious persons should be
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  Speaker 1: mindful of his distresses. It is, however, no evidence of
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  Speaker 1: distrust that he calls in from all quarters the helps
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  Speaker 1: that were appointed him by the Lord the subscription with
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  Speaker 1: his own hand, means, as we have seen elsewhere, that
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  Speaker 1: there were even then spurious epistles in circulation, so that
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  Speaker 1: it was necessary to provide against imposition. And of Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty two and of commentary on the Epistle to the
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  Speaker 1: Claws Mentions by John Calvin, translated by Reverend John Pringle,
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