Teks -- Colossians 1:8 (NET)

1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Col 1:8 - Who also declared

Who also declared ( ho kai dēlōsas ).

Articular first aorist active participle of dēloō , old verb, to make manifest. Epaphras told Paul about their "love in the Spirit,"grounded in the Holy Spirit.

Vincent: Col 1:8 - Declared

Declared ( δηλώσας )

Or made manifest . See on 1Co 1:11.

Vincent: Col 1:8 - In the Spirit

In the Spirit

Connect with your love . Compare Gal 5:22.

Wesley: Col 1:8 - Your love in the Spirit

Your love wrought in you by the Spirit.

JFB: Col 1:8 - your love

(Col 1:4); "to all the saints."

JFB: Col 1:8 - in the Spirit

The sphere or element IN which alone true love is found; as distinguished from the state of those "in the flesh" (Rom 8:9). Yet even they needed to be stirred up to greater love (Col 3:12-14). Love is the first and chief fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22).

Clarke: Col 1:8 - Your love in the Spirit

Your love in the Spirit - So we preached, and so ye believed. The heavenly flame in the heart of this minister communicated itself to those who heard him; it was like priest like people. They enjoyed a spiritual, energetic ministry, and they were a spiritual people; they had a loving spirit, and love through the Spirit of God which dwelt in them. And of this love of theirs in the Spirit, and particularly towards the apostle, Epaphras gave full proof, not only by describing to the apostle the affection they felt for him, but in presenting to him those supplies which their love to him caused them to furnish.

Calvin: Col 1:8 - Love in the Spirit

Love in the Spirit I take to mean, spiritual love, according to the view of Chrysostom, with whom, however, I do not agree in the interpretation of the preceding words. Now, spiritual love is of such a nature as has no view to the world, but is consecrated to the service of piety, ²⁸⁶ and has, as it were, an internal root, while carnal friendships depend on external causes.

TSK: Col 1:8

Col 1:4; Rom 5:5, Rom 15:30; Gal 5:22; 2Ti 1:7; 1Pe 1:22

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Col 1:8

Having with kindness and delight reported to Paul and Timothy, &c., what a spiritually fervent affection, not moved by carnal considerations, but inwrought by the Spirit, Gal 5:6,22 , arising from a renewed heart, 1Ti 1:5 2Ti 1:7 , they had for Christ, for the gospel, the apostle, and all that did love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, Gal 6:10 1Pe 1:22,23 .

Haydock: Col 1:8 - Your love

Your love. Your charity for all men, founded on the love of God. Others understand it of the affection which they had for St. Paul. (St. John Chrysostom)

Gill: Col 1:8 - Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. Not only their love to God, and Christ, and to all the saints, which is before mentioned, but their love to the apostle; though they had only heard of him, and of his great capacity for, and faithfulness and usefulness in preaching of the Gospel, which had greatly endeared him to them. This, he says, was in the Spirit; it was spiritual love, to distinguish it from a carnal and worldly one; they loved him for the spiritual grace that was in him, the spiritual gifts bestowed on him, the spiritual service he was engaged in, and the spiritual usefulness he was of: or they loved him in, and with their spirits, with all their hearts, sincerely, and without dissimulation; and though they had never seen him in the flesh, yet being, as it were, present with him in spirit, their affections were knit unto him: or this their love was "in the Holy Spirit", as the Ethiopic version reads it; it was a fruit of the Spirit of God, which he had implanted in their hearts in regeneration, as is also love to God, and likewise to Christ.