Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Colossians: Chapter 1].
also the hope of glory for he is the \Shekinah\ of God. Christ is
our hope now (1Ti 1:1) and the consummation will come (Ro
8:18).
1:28 {Whom} (\hon\). That is, "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
{We proclaim} (\kataggellomen\). Paul, Timothy and all
like-minded preachers against the Gnostic depreciation of Christ.
This verb originally (Xenophon) meant to denounce, but in N.T. it
means to announce (\aggell•\) throughout (\kata\), to proclaim
far and wide (Ac 13:5). {Admonishing} (\nouthetountes\). Old
verb from \nouthet•s\, admonisher (from \nous, tith•mi\). See
already Ac 20:31; 1Th 5:12,14; 2Th 3:15, etc. Warning about
practice and teaching (\didaskontes\) about doctrine. Such
teaching calls for "all wisdom" {Every man} (\panta anthr•pon\).
Repeated three times. "In opposition to the doctrine of an
intellectual exclusiveness taught by the false teachers"
(Abbott). {That we may present} (\hina parast•s•men\). Final use
of \hina\ and first aorist active subjunctive of \parist•mi\, for
which see 1:22, the final presentation to Christ. {Perfect}
(\teleion\). Spiritual adults in Christ, no longer babes in
Christ (Heb 5:14), mature and ripened Christians (4:22), the
full-grown man in Christ (Eph 4:13). The relatively perfect
(Php 3:15) will on that day of the presentation be fully
developed as here (Col 4:12; Eph 4:13). The Gnostics used
\teleios\ of the one fully initiated into their mysteries and it
is quite possible that Paul here has also a sidewise reference to
their use of the term.
1:29 {Whereunto} (\eis ho\). That is "to present every man
perfect in Christ." {I labour also} (\kai kopi•\). Late verb
\kopia•\, from \kopos\ (toil), to grow weary from toil (Mt
11:28), to toil on (Php 2:16), sometimes for athletic
training. In papyri. {Striving} (\ag•nizomenos\). Present middle
participle of common verb \ag•nizomai\ (from \ag•n\, contest, as
in 2:1), to contend in athletic games, to agonize, a favourite
metaphor with Paul who is now a prisoner. {Working}
(\energeian\). Our word "energy." Late word from \energ•s\ (\en,
ergon\), efficiency (at work). Play on the word here with the
present passive participle of \energe•, energoumen•n\ (energy
energized) as in Eph 1:19f. Paul was conscious of God's
"energy" at work in him "mightily" (\en dunamei\), "in power"
like dynamite.
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