Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Colossians: Chapter 2].
first aorist active participle of \egeir•\, the fact here stated)
and he has power (energy) to give us new life in Christ by faith.
2:13 {And you} (\kai humas\). Emphatic position, object of the
verb \sunez•opoi•sen\ (did he quicken) and repeated (second
\hum•s\). You Gentiles as he explains. {Being dead through your
trespasses} (\nekrous ontas tois parapt•masin\). Moral death, of
course, as in Ro 6:11; Eph 2:1,5. Correct text does not have
\en\, but even so \parapt•masin\ (from \parapipt•\, to fall
beside or to lapse, Heb 6:6), a lapse or misstep as in Mt
6:14; Ro 5:15-18; Ga 6:1, can be still in the locative, though
the instrumental makes good sense also. {And the uncircumcision
of your flesh} (\kai t•i akrobousti•i t•s sarkos hum•n\). "Dead
in your trespasses and your alienation from God, of which the
uncircumcision of your flesh was a symbol" (Abbott). Clearly so,
"the uncircumcision" used merely in a metaphorical sense. {Did he
quicken together with him} (\sunez•opoi•sen sun aut•i\). First
aorist active indicative of the double compound verb
\sunz•opoie•\, to make alive (\z•os, poie•\) with (\sun\,
repeated also with \aut•i\, associative instrumental), found only
here and in Eph 2:5, apparently coined by Paul for this
passage. Probably \theos\ (God) is the subject because expressly
so stated in Eph 2:4f. and because demanded by \sun aut•i\ here
referring to Christ. This can be true even if Christ be the
subject of \•rken\ in verse 14. {Having forgiven us}
(\charisamenos h•min\). First aorist middle participle of
\charizomai\, common verb from \charis\ (favour, grace). Dative
of the person common as in 3:13. The act of forgiving is
simultaneous with the quickening, though logically antecedent.
2:14 {Having blotted out} (\exaleipsas\). And so "cancelled."
First aorist active participle of old verb \exaleiph•\, to rub
out, wipe off, erase. In N.T. only in Ac 3:19 (LXX); Re 3:5;
Col 2:14. Here the word explains \charisamenos\ and is
simultaneous with it. Plato used it of blotting out a writing.
Often MSS. were rubbed or scraped and written over again
(palimpsests, like Codex C). {The bond written in ordinances that
was against us} (\to kath' h•m•n cheirographon tois dogmasin\).
The late compound \cheirographon\ (\cheir\, hand, \graph•\) is
very common in the papyri for a certificate of debt or bond, many
of the original \cheirographa\ (handwriting, "chirography"). See
Deissmann, _Bible Studies_, p. 247. The signature made a legal
debt or bond as Paul says in Phm 1:18f.: "I Paul have written
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