If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Ver. 1. If ye then be risen with Christ] As ye profess to be,Colossians 2:12 .
Seek those things, &c.] As Christ risen spake and did only the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, Acts 1:3, and waited alway for his exaltation into heaven; there should be continual ascensions in our hearts. The Church is compared to pillars of smoke, elationibus fumi,Song of Solomon 3:6, as having her affections, thoughts, desires upward, heavenward. (Tremel.)