When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
4. But when Christ, our life, shall appear. Here we have a choice consolation — that the coming of Christ will be the manifestation of our life. And, at the same time, he admonishes us how unreasonable were the disposition of the man, who should refuse to bear up “D’endurer et attendre;” — “To endure and wait.” until that day.
Freedom from the ceremonial law does not license you to live as you please; instead, walk closer with God in evangelical obedience. Because Christ sits at the right hand of God, secured our heavenly happiness at vast expense, you must seek and secure what He purchased and prize it above all earthly concerns.
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Commenting on Colossians 3:1-4
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,.... The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies, read, "your life". Christ is the author of spiritual life, the fountain from whence it springs, the object on which the saints live, yea, their very life itself; it is not so much they that live, as Christ that lives in them: and he is their eternal life; it is...