and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
Love in the Spirit I take to mean, spiritual love, according to the view of Chrysostom, with whom, however, I do not agree in the interpretation of the preceding words. Now, spiritual love is of such a nature as has no view to the world, but is consecrated to the service of piety, “Mais est commencee et comme consacree a l’adueu de la piete et...
Thanksgiving belongs in every prayer, paired with rejoicing over the same matter. Paul gives thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for their faith in Christ, their love toward the saints, and their hope laid up in heaven, the three principal graces that mark a Christian life.
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Commenting on Colossians 1:3-8
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. Not only their love to God, and Christ, and to all the saints, which is before mentioned, but their love to the apostle; though they had only heard of him, and of his great capacity for, and faithfulness and usefulness in preaching of the Gospel, which had greatly endeared him to them.