From: David Moore (dvdmoore@dcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us)
Date: Thu Dec 07 1995 - 10:40:37 EST
From: Jim Beale <jbeale@gdeb.com>
Subject: Re: Help with Col. 1:24
To: b-greek@virginia.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 18:13:32 EST
Jim Beale <jbeale@gdeb.com> wrote:
>Wow! Thank you everyone. What a great group!
>
>nu=n now
>xai/rw I rejoice
>e)n in
>toi=s the (my)
>paqh/masin sufferings
>u(pe\r on behalf of
>u(mw=n y'all (1)
>kai\ and
>a)ntanaplhrw= I fill up
>ta\ the
>u(sterh/mata deficiencies
>tw=n
>qli/yewn of the afflictions
>tou=
>*xristou= of Christ
>e)n in
>th=| the
>sarki/ flesh
>mou of me
>u(pe\r on behalf of
>tou=
>sw/matos of the body
>au)tou= of him
>o(/ which
>e)stin is
>h( the
>e)kklhsi/a Church
>
> 1. south'n is a more advanced form of the english
> language because they differentiate between
> singular and plural in the 2nd person.
>
>The word QLI/YEWN doesn't refer to Christ's vicarious satisfaction
>in any way does it? hUPER is used of Christ's sufferings on behalf
>of His people, but does this imply that there is some defiency? I
>admit to a theological roadblock on this one... :-)
>
The most likely meaning of this passage, IMO, is that certain
afflictions pertain to the church because of her union with Christ. This
idea agrees with what Paul expresses in other places on related matters
(Rom. 8:17; 8:36; 2 Cor. 1:7; Phil. 3:10, 11; 2 Tim. 2:12).
C. F. D. Moule's comments in his _The Epistles of Paul the Apostle
to the Colossians and Philemon_ are helpful on this passage. He takes the
afflictions mentioned as referring to those the church is destined to
experience, but it may be that Paul is referring to afflictions to which
he, personally, is destined by his union with Christ (Moule also notes
this possibility.) in his service on behalf of the church (cf. Rev. 13:10,
N-A text).
So the reference would not be to redemptive sufferings as those of
Christ, but to those things the believer may suffer in living for Christ
and in serving others according to His will. Paul would be referring to
the sorts of things that cannot separate us from the love of Christ and in
the midst of which believers "triumph absolutely through Him who loved
us."
All the best,
David L. Moore Southeastern Spanish District
Miami, Florida of the Assemblies of God
dvdmoore@dcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Department of Education
http://members.aol.com/dvdmoore
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