Colossians 3:3 (WEB)
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Catechism · 4
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“United with Christ by Baptism, believers already truly participate in the heavenly life of the risen Christ, but this life remains "hidden with Christ in God."” — Catechism footnote: Col 3:3; cf. Phil 3:20.
The Sacraments of Healing
“Now we carry this life "in earthen vessels," and it remains "hidden with Christ in God."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 4:7; Col 3:3.
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
“When the Church prays "our Father who art in heaven," she is professing that we are the People of God, already seated "with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" and "hidden with Christ in God;"” — Catechism footnote: Eph 2:6; Col 3:3.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“In Christ, Christians "have tasted. . . the powers of the age to come" and their lives are swept up by Christ into the heart of divine life, so that they may "live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:15; cf. Col 3:1-3.
Fathers and councils · 33
Gregory of Nyssa
“Now “if the first-fruits be holy, the lump also is holy.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 16. The reference next following may be to S. John xii. 26, or xiv. 3; or to Col. iii. 3.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.6Book II
“And what else does Paul mean when he says, “Your life is hid with Christ in God;” and again in another passage, “Do you seek a proof of Christ, who speaketh in me?”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
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“Of which soul, seeing it had received into itself the whole wisdom of God, and the truth, and the life, I think that the apostle also said this: “Our life is hidden with Christ in God; but when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iii. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
““For ye” (saith the Apostle) “are dead,” even as trees seem to be in winter, as it were dead, as it were withered.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Observe David hiding: “For ye are dead,” saith the Apostle to the members of Christ, “and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“…in this world as it were in a desert, inasmuch as to no one is our faith observable: whence saith the Apostle, “Your life is hidden with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“This death he had died who said, “The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world:” this death they had died unto whom he said, “Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Yet since we hope for those things which are to come, and sigh for future happiness, and since it hath not yet appeared what we shall be, although we are already “sons of God;” for “our life is hidden with Christ in God:” “we are utterly despised,” by those who seek or enjoy happiness in this world.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Because no man entereth into the body of the Church, save he be slain first.” — editor's note: [“Ye are dead,” Col. iii. 3.—C.]
Read the whole comment“For to such while placed here it is said, “Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“To such forsooth are said those words, which we, as partners and sharers with them, ought to listen to.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“…is in His secret place: since “your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“To whom truly the apostle says, “If ye be dead with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“…along with those who should rise again, he called them dead, both the good to whom it is said, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God,” and the wicked of whom it is said, “Let the dead bury their dead.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3
Read the whole comment““When Christ,” saith he, “your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“Of such a death it is that the apostle said, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Then shall we appear as that which we then shall be; for it shall then be apparent that it was not without good grounds that we believed and hoped we should become so, before it actually took place.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“But when Christ your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“As the Apostle says: “Our life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“It is also written: “He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord;” and in another place: “Our life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
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Basil the Great
“…“is hidden,” it would seem, “with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall” they themselves also “appear with Him in glory;” and is the Spirit of life Himself, “Who made us free from the law of sin,” not with Christ, both in the secret and hidden life with Him, and in the…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3, 4.
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Tertullian
“He also adds: “For ye are dead”—to your sins, he means, not to yourselves—“and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Ver. 3.
Read the whole comment“The heretic erased the preposition in, and made the clause run thus: (“what is the fellowship of the mystery) which hath for ages been hidden from the God who created all things.”” — editor's note: The passage of St. Paul, as Tertullian expresses it, “Quæ dispensatio sacramenti occulti ab ævis in Deo, qui omnia condidit.” According to Marcion’s…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…comes forth, and the light before Him, and the darkness prepared; and they that have done good shall go into the resurrection of life, now hid in Christ and to be manifested hereafter with Him, and they that have done evil, into the resurrection of judgment, to which they who have not believed have been…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
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Leo the Great
“But when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory:” who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Ghost for ever and ever.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“For when Christ, our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“For when Christ our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3.
Read the whole comment“For when Christ, your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“For when Christ, your life, shall have appeared, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
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John Cassian
“To me indeed the world is crucified, and I to the world.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 5, 3. Gal. ii. 20; vi. 14. Cf. Sozomen l. c.: “They wore their tunics without sleeves in order to teach that the hands ought not to be ready to do…
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Cited together in Catechism §2796.
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Cited together in Catechism §1003 and 1 other place.