Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
12. Buried with him, in baptism. He explains still more clearly the manner of spiritual circumcision — because, being buried with Christ, we are partakers of his death. He expressly declares that we obtain this by means of baptism, that it may be the more clearly apparent that there is no advantage from circumcision under the reign of Christ.
Satan spoils souls by beguiling them; he could not ruin you if he did not cheat you. His agents use enticing words and fair speeches to deceive the simple, so you must stand guard against those who would flatter you into evil. The antidote is this: walk in Christ as you received Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith.
AI summary
Commenting on Colossians 2:4-12
Buried with him in baptism,.... The apostle goes on to observe how complete and perfect the saints are in Christ; that they are not only circumcised in him in a spiritual sense, and the body of the sins of their flesh is put off, and removed from them, in allusion to the cutting off and casting away of the foreskin in circumcision; but that they...