Read verse in KJV Bible Reader
John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Colossians 4 This chapter begins with an exhortation to masters to behave towards their servants in a just and equitable manner, from the consideration of their having a master in heaven, which should have concluded the preceding one; and in it the apostle gives some general exhortations, and some particular instructions about reading this, and another epistle, and stirring up...
John Gill
Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you,.... This man was a man of Macedonia, and a Thessalonian; Acts 19:29 which hinders not but that he might be of the circumcision, or a Jew, as is suggested in the following verse; for he might be born at Thessalonica, and yet be of Jewish parents; nor is his Greek name any objection to it, for the Jews themselves say, that the greatest part of the...
Matthew Henry
I. He continues his account of the duty of masters, from the close of the former chapter, ver. 1. II. He exhorts to the duty of prayer (ver. 2-4), and to a prudent and decent conduct towards those with whom we converse, ver. 5, 6. III. He closes the epistle with the mention of several of his friends, of whom he gives an honourable testimony, ver. 7-18. Relative Duties. (a. d. 62.) 1 Masters, give...