PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE HOPE
In 2.20-4.6: Life with Christ governs regulations about food and drink, and relations with other Christians, family members, and outsiders. An initial transition (2.20-23) reveals the practical implications of death with Christ. Another transition (3.1-4) commends the life raised with Christ, followed by a vice list (3.5-11), a virtue list (3.12-17), and household duties (3.18-4.6).
Read Colossians 2.20-3.17. In verse 1: Right hand of God, see Ps 110.1. In verses 5-11: On the use of vice lists in Paul, see Rom 1.29-31; Gal 5.19-21. Hellenistic teachers often used vice and virtue lists to challenge their students. In verse 11: Barbarian, non-Greek. Scythian, a wild person, no longer will there be different ethnic nor groups and subgroups. The author commends ethnic and class equality but not equality of the sexes as found it Gal 3.28. In verse 16: see Eph 5.19. Comments or Questions..
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