Colossians 2:14 — King James Version← Study notes
“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”
Colossians 2:14 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Colossians 2:1421 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Colossians 2:14
“Having forgiven us all our trespasses; having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross; having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” “Having forgiven us,” he says, “all our trespasses,” those which produced that deadness. What then? Did He allow them to remain? No, He even wiped them out;…
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