1. T« «f<w £»jrg/rg, seek the things that are above) Christ, after the resurrection, immediately directed His eager thoughts towards heaven, John xx. 17, note.1 So also believers, Eph. ii. 6.
2. <&povsTrt, Have a relish for, set your mind, or affections) They who truly seek the things that are above, cannot but relish or set their affections on the things that are above. The apostle says, relish in the second place, not seek ; for there is an anti thesis to earthly things (ra ?V/ rvjg 7^c), which we are said to relish or set our affections upon, to care for, but which we could not properly be said to seek, because they are present with us.
3. 'ArtsQdvere, ye are dead) to the earth and to the world, spiritually, ch. ii. 20. — n ^n WMV xsxpwTrrai, your life is hid) An abbreviated expression in this sense : ye are dead to the world, that ye may live to God ; but that life is as yet hid. — -/.txpvKTou ffvv rti Xpiffrti, is hid with Christ) The world knows neither Christ nor Christians, and Christians do not even know distinctly themselves, i.e. one another.
4. "Orav, when) This word, used absolutely, strikes (flashes upon) the whole mind of the reader, as if he had been un mindful of the preceding words, with a sudden light, so that it is doubtful whether and or but should be supplied. — (pavspuQy, shall be manifested) in glory, 1 Pet. iv. 13. — j? £w?} v/uuv, your life) This expresses the aspect (in relation to you), under which He will be manifested. — TOTS, then) We should not de mand it sooner. — KUI iW/c, ye also) This hope draws men off from the earth. — sv d6%?i, in glory) a glorious life.
5. Ngxpw<rarg, Mortify2) [not knowing to spare.8 — V. g.] — ra
1 Comp. note, Luke ix. 51. Jesus ever kept His eye fixed on the goal to which He was hastening. So, in John xx. 17, He says, as if a present thing, / ascend, not, I will ascend : He hastened in feeling over the inter mediate forty days to His actual entering heaven. — ED.
2 Lit. Punish with every kind of death,
3 Strangers to all tender-heartedness, such as would lead you to spare the flesh.— ED.