For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Ver. 3. For ye are dead] Crucified to the world, as Paul,Galatians 6:14, weaned as a child from the breasts, or rather botches of the world, as David, Psalms 131:2. Dead also in regard of daily miseries, Isaiah 26:19; 1 Corinthians 15:31 .
And your life is hid] As the pearl is hid, till the shell be broken; or as the life of flowers in winter is hidden in the root; or as God hid Christ under the carpenter's son.