Colossians 1:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In whom; i.e. in the person of Christ alone God-man, deputed of his Father to die for our salvation, Acts 4:12, Acts 20:28. We; as we are in him, made meet, Colossians 1:12. Have redemption; we have eternal deliverance, Hebrews 9:12, effected by a full ransom paid, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 7:23 1 Peter 1:18,19. For the freeing us indeed out of a state of sin and misery, 1 Thessalonians 8:36, or eternal death the wages of sin, Romans 6:23, Romans 16:20; so that by redemption here is not meant barely laying down the price, Luke 2:38, nor consummate redemption at the last, Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 4:30, but efficacious redemption. Through his blood; upon the account of Christ's offering himself an expiatory sacrifice to God, without which is no remission, Hebrews 9:22 Revelation 5:9; effusion of his blood, by a synecdoche, takes in his humiliation to the death of the cross, and the pains of the second death he underwent for us, Isaiah 53:5,6 Ac 2:24 Galatians 3:13 Philippians 2:8. Even the forgiveness of sins; plenary remission of offences is by apposition to, or follows, redemption as a necessary effect, Colossians 2:13 Luke 1:77 Acts 10:43, by a metonymy transferring the cause to the effect: to see more: See Poole on "Ephesians 1:7".