“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:”
In him also you were circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ — circumcision (peritomē) is spiritual: 'made without hands' (cheiropoiētos) contrasts with Jewish literal circumcision. 'Putting off the body of the flesh' (apekdysis tou sōmatos tēs sarkos) is conversion's stripping: old self dies. 'In the circumcision of Christ' grounds circumcision in Christ's death and resurrection (not legal observance). Christian conversion is true circumcision.
Church Fathers on Colossians 2:10
“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily: and in Him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.” Observe how in his accusing of the one he thrusts through the other, by first giving the solution, and then the objection. For such a solution is not suspected, and the hearer accepts it the rather, that the speaker is not making it his aim. For in that case indeed he would make a point of not coming off worsted, but in this, not so. “For…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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