reconciled you ; although you were enemies, nevertheless He has reconciled you. The Apodosis is to be referred to the words immediately preceding, although they do not render the sentence complete. — dcroxar^/^aggj', reconciled) i.e. God hath.
22. 'Ev rui ffb)fj,ari rr\c, ffapx.bg alrov, by the body of His flesh) By this appellation, taken as a whole, He is distinguished from the Church, which is called the body of Christ : and at the same time the body denotes the true and entire humanity of Christ, Rom. vii. 4. Flesh implies the capacity of suffering, and the suffering itself; Eph. ii. 15. — Kapaffrqffai, to present) Eph. v. 27. — «7/Vj£, holy) towards God. — d^ui^ovg, spotless) in respect of yourselves. — dcvgy/cXTjrous, unreproveable) in respect of your neighbour.
23. E/ ye, if indeed) This word depends on the finite verb, He hath reconciled, ver. 21, rather than on the infinitive xapaff- r^ai [ver. 22] ; and this -ra/?aor/j<ra/, being the ultimate [final] object, is itself the most delightful fruit of reconciliation ; whence it is not the truth of the reconciliation which has been accom plished, that is suspended [is made to depend] on the persever ance of the Colossians, but the most delightful fruit for the time to come, which is not to be obtained, unless the Colossians shall have persevered ; comp. ti 72, Eph. iv. 21 ; sawsp, Heb. iii. 6. — ry vjffTti) in faith, viz. in confidence ; to which hope is usually joined. — rtfa^sXiu/js'svoi) secured to the foundation [grounded] : IbpaToi, stable [settled], firm within. The former is metaphorical, the latter less figurative ; the one implies greater respect to the foundation, by which believers are supported ; but edpaToi, stable (settled), suggests the idea of internal strength, which believers themselves possess ; just as a building ought to lean (rest) uprightly and solidly on the foundation first of all, but afterwards to cohere securely, and firmly to stand to gether, even by its own mass [compact solidity of structure]. — xa/ tfyafa Kai, and stable and) 1 Cor. xv. 58, note ; Eph. iii. 18. — rou suayygX/ou, of the Gospel) by which reconciliation is declared. — naffy, to every) ver. 20; Markxvi. 15, note. — didxovog, minister) ver. 25 ; Eph. iii. 7.
24. NDc, now) This is in antithesis to from (since) the day that, ver. 9. — xa/, and) This is to be explained thus : in my sufferings,