Colossians 3:3

“For ye are dead, etc.] Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; nor in a legal sense, for all their trespasses were forgiven them; (see <510213>Colossians 2:13,20); but they were dead to the law, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, by the body of Christ; and to sin, as to its damning power, through his bearing it in his own body on the tree; and to the world by his cross: and therefore as dead men have nothing to do with the world, and the things of it, so believers being dead with Christ, should have no regard to the rudiments of the world, the ceremonies of the…”

“The Greek aorist tense implies, "For ye have died once for all" (Col 2:12; Rom 6:4-7). It is not said, Ye must die practically to the world in order to become dead with Christ; but the latter is assumed as once for all having taken place in the regeneration; what believers are told is, Develop this spiritual life in practice. "No one longs for eternal, incorruptible, and immortal life, unless he be wearied of this temporal, corruptible, and mortal life" [AUGUSTINE]. and your life . . . hid-- (Psa 83:3); like a seed buried in the earth; compare "planted," Rom 6:5. Compare Mat 13:31, Mat 13:33, "like . . . leaven . . . hid." As the glory of Christ now is hid from the world, so also the glory…”

“For ye are dead - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Romans 6:2 note; Ephesians 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that as Christ became literally dead in the tomb, so we, in virtue of our connection with him, have become dead to sin, to worldly influences, pleasures, and ambition. Or, in other words, we are to be to them as if we were dead, and they had no more influence over us than the things of earth had over him in the grave; Notes, Romans 6:2. And your life - There is still life. Though dead to one class of objects, you are alive to others. See the sentiment here expressed, explained at large in the notes at…”

“For ye are dead - To the things on earth. And your real, spiritual life is hid from the world, and laid up in God, with Christ - Who hath merited, promised, prepared it for us, and gives us the earnest and foretaste of it in our hearts. Colossians 3:4”

“3:3-4 you died to this life: See 2:20. • What is now hidden will one day be revealed (cp. 1:26). We cannot now see that Christ is enthroned at the right hand of God and that we have been raised to new life with Christ. But by faith in the Good News, we know that these things are true. When Christ returns in glory, his supremacy will be evident to all and our relationship to him will be a direct experience.”

“are: Col 2:20; Rom 6:2; Gal 2:20 your: Col 3:4, Col 1:5; Joh 3:16, Joh 4:14, Joh 5:21, Joh 5:24, Joh 5:40, Joh 6:39, Joh 6:40, Joh 10:28-30, Joh 14:19; Rom 5:10, Rom 5:21, Rom 8:2, Rom 8:34-39; Co1 15:45; Co2 5:7; Heb 7:25; Pe1 1:3-5 hid: Col 2:3; Mat 11:25; Co1 2:14; Phi 4:7; Pe1 3:4; Jo1 3:2; Rev 2:17 Colossians 3:4”