Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Ver. 12. As the elect of God, holy and beloved] Therefore holy, because elect, and therefore beloved, because holy; as God's name is holy, and therefore reverend, Psalms 111:9. God chose his for his love, and now loves them for his choice.
Bowels of mercies] Draw out thy soul as well as thy sheaf to the hungry, Isaiah 58:10. Steep thy thoughts in the mercies of God, saith one, and they will dye thine, as the dye vat doth the cloth.
Humbleness of mind] Even to be content to "be trampled upon," as the word signifieth; a or to be laid low as earth, as Paul,Philippians 4:12; to have a low mind in a high conversation, as Athanasius (υφηλου βιας ταπεινον φρονημα). Humility is the veil of a Christian, that maketh the bride look most lovely.
a ταπεινος, quasi πατεινος, vel εδαφεινος .