Colossians 2:14 (WEB)
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
Fathers and councils · 32
Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.37Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“Now those oblations are not according to the law, the handwriting of which the Lord took away from the midst by cancelling it; but they are according to the Spirit, for we must worship God “in spirit and in truth.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment “…out thus that remission of sins which follows upon His advent, by which “He has destroyed the handwriting” of our debt, and “fastened it to the cross;” so that as by means of a tree we were made debtors to God, [so also] by means of a tree we may obtain the remission of our debt.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
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Tertullian
“…was to enter the lists one day singly against the devil—the figure of the cross was also necessary, (that figure) through which Jesus was to win the victory?” — editor's note: See Ex. xvii. 8–16; and comp. Col. ii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“…the works of the devil:” for He has “undone” them withal, by setting man free through baptism, the “handwriting of death” having been “made a gift of” to him: and accordingly, “he who is being born of God doeth not sin, because the seed of God abideth in him; and he cannot sin, because he hath been born of God.” — editor's note: See Col. ii. 13, 14.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“So may He blot out the handwriting that is against you, and grant you forgiveness of your former trespasses; may He plant you into His Church, and enlist you in His own service, and put on you the armour of…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Which was written to the intent that we should believe that He is crucified in us, that our sins may be purged through Him, that He, Who alone can forgive sins, may nail to His cross the handwriting which was against us.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…out the handwriting of the Ordinance, which was opposed to us, and removed it from our midst, nailing it to His Cross, divesting Himself of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 13–14.
Read the whole comment“For thus it is written, that He has forgiven “all transgressions, doing away the handwriting of the ordinance that was against us.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 13, 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…without the omission of a single day; whence she knew that the holy sacrifice was dispensed, by which the handwriting that was against us is blotted out; by which the enemy was triumphed over, who, summing up our offences, and searching for something to bring against us, found nothing in Him in whom we conquer.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…of Thy ways, in whom the Prince of this world found nothing worthy of death, yet killed he Him, and the handwriting which was contrary to us was blotted out?” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast been humbled, and hast humbled others: Thou hast been wounded, and hast wounded others: for Thy blood, as it was shed to blot the handwriting of sins, could not but wound him.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Let us be assured: the “handwriting which was against us,” the bond of our slavery, the devil held, but by the blood of Christ it is blotted out.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
- Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3Demonstrations by Syllogisms
“If our Lord and Saviour nailed the handwriting to the cross, as says the divine Apostle, He then nailed the body, for on his body every man like letters marks the prints of his sins, wherefore on behalf of sinners He gave up the body that was free from all sin.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Paul the apostle teaches us, saying, “He is our peace who made both one;” and then, “Blotting out the handwriting of sins that was against us.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“(In this way the soul) would triumph by means of this (body) over principalities and powers, and would not be found naked, but would, instead of that flesh, assume the (other) body, which had been represented in the water when he was being baptized.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11, 14, 15.
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John Chrysostom
“Since Christ not only did not publish our transgressions, but did not put us the transgressors in mind of them, nor say, “in such and such things hast thou offended,” but remitted and blotted out the handwriting, not reckoning our offenses, as Paul hath also declared. ( Col. ii. 14.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For not otherwise than by the cross did He effect this; as Paul likewise said: “And the handwriting which was contrary to us, even it He took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14. [Comp. R.V., in loco.]
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Leo the Great
“…man of our race and of our nature appeared who was not under the prejudice of the old debt, and who with his untainted blood might blot out the bond of death, as it had from the beginning been divinely fore-ordained, so it came to pass in the fulness of the appointed time that the promise which had been proclaimed…” — editor's note: The reference is to Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“The unscrupulous thief and greedy robber persisted in assaulting Him Who had nothing of His own, and in carrying out the general sentence on original sin, went beyond the bond on which he rested, and required the punishment of iniquity from Him in Whom he found no fault.” — editor's note: Dum vitiatæ originis præiudicium generale persequitur, chirographum quo nitebatur excedit. Cf. Col. ii. 14, and Lett. CXXIV. 7.
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Jerome
“…with a pen upon its renewed surface—He, after He has recovered the spoil from the enemy, and has spoiled principalities and powers, nailing them to His cross—having been miraculously conceived, grows up to manhood; and, as He becomes older, regards you no longer as His mother, but as His bride.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“And “when we were dead in our sins and in the uncircumcision of our flesh, God hath quickened us together with Him, having forgiven us all trespasses; 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.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 13, 14.
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Basil the Great
“In a word, if the law of the Commandments has been done away with by dogmas, it is plain that under these circumstances the dogmas of Christ will be nullified by the injunctions of the law.” — editor's note: This passage shews in what sense St. Basil understands δόγματα in Eph. ii. 15, and Col. ii. 14. cf. note on p. 41.
Read the whole comment“…delivered “from the idols,” we came “to the living God,” constitutes himself a “stranger” from the “promises” of God, fighting against his own handwriting, which he put on record when he professed the faith.” — editor's note: The word χειρόγραφον, more common in Latin than in Greek, is used generally for a bond. cf. Juv. Sat. xvi. 41, “Debitor aut sumptos pergit non reddere nummos,…
Read the whole comment“Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force.” — editor's note: “τῶς ἐν τῇ Εκκλησί& 139· πεφυλαγμένων δογμάτων καὶ κηρυγμάτων.” To give the apparent meaning of the original seems impossible except by some such paraphrase as…
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Ephrem the Syrian
“At the Birth of the Son the king was enrolling all men for the tribute-money, that they might be debtors to Him: the King came forth to us Who blotted out our bills, and wrote another bill in His own Name that He might be our debtor.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
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John Cassian
“…born of the Virgin Mary, appeared in the world, lived among men, fastened to the wood of the cross the handwriting of our offences, triumphed in Himself, slew by His death the powers that were at enmity and hostile to us; and gave to all men belief in the resurrection, and by the glory of His body put an end to…” — editor's note: Cf. Col. ii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“…death and bound by the debt of the handwriting that could not be paid, He freed, by taking it away out of the midst and affixing it to His cross for a trophy.” — editor's note: The whole passage is alluding to Col. ii. 14, 15, which runs as follows in the Vulgate: “Delens quad adversum nos erat chirograffum decretis, quod erat…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross; and having put off the flesh He made a show of powers openly, triumphing over them through confidence in Himself.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 8–15.
Read the whole comment“Conclude for yourself, Who it is that makes Himself manifest to them that knew Him not; Who, though one people is His own, becomes the possession of strangers; Who it is that spreads out His hands before an unbelieving and gainsaying people, nailing to the cross the writing of the former sentence against us.” — editor's note: Cf. Col. ii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross, and having put off from Himself His flesh, He hath made a shew of powers, triumphing over them in Himself.” — editor's note: Ib. 13–15.
Read the whole comment“Forgiving us all our trespasses, blotting out the bond written in ordinances, that was against us, which was contrary to us: taking it away, and nailing it to the cross; stripping off from Himself His flesh, He made a shew of principalities and powers openly triumphing over them in Himself.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 13–15.
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Aphrahat
“…of the offspring of the Blessed Mary the thorns are uprooted, the sweat wiped away, the fig-tree cursed, the dust made salt, the curse nailed to the cross, the edge of the sword removed from before the tree of life and it given as food to the faithful, and Paradise promised to the blessed and to virgins and to the…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 14.
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.
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Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.37.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.