2:13 You were once spiritually dead, as confirmed in your constant failure, being bound to a lifestyle ruled by the 1distorted desires of the flesh; but now God made you alive together with him and thus 2graciously restored our innocence and dignity, having forgiven us all our 3short fallings. 1The uncircumcision of the flesh in the Greek, a life controlled by the sexual organs. God 2graced us in Christ. The word translated, forgiven, 2charisamenos from charizomai means he graciously restored our innocence and dignity! The word, 3paraptoma, comes from, para, close proximity, sphere of influence and pipto, to stop flying, from petomai, to fly; thus, to fall from flight or to lose altitude.) 2:14 His body nailed to the cross hung there as the 3document of mankind’s guilt; in dying our death he 1cancelled the detailed 2hand-written 3record which testified against us. Every 1stain on our conscience, reminding of the sense of failure and guilt, was thus fully blotted out. (The word, 1exaleipho, comes from ek, out of, and aleipho, with a, as a particle of union, and liparos, to grease, to leave a stain; guilt, as well as all hurtful memories were like grease stains upon the conscience. In N.T. only here and Rev 3:5; 7:17; 21:4 and in Acts 3:19 “Be awakened in your minds and fully converted to face the fact of your redeemed innocence - your sins have been thoroughly blotted out!” Plato used it of blotting out a writing. The word, 2cheirographon, translates as hand-written. The word, 3dogma, comes from dokeo, a thought thus thought patterns engraved by human experience of constant failure to do what the law required. In his personal handwriting mankind endorsed their own death sentence. The hands of fallen mankind struck the body of Jesus with the blows of their religious hatred and fury when they nailed his bloodied body to the tree; they did not realize that in the mystery of God’s economy, Jesus became the scapegoat of the entire human race! [Isaiah 53:4, 5] See notes on Heb 8:12. “The slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s Cross.” —The Message.) 2:15 In him dying mankind’s death, he 1defused every possible claim of accusation against the human race and thus made a public 2spectacle of every 3rule and authority in God’s brilliant triumph, demonstrated in him. The 4voice of the cross will never be silenced! (The horror of the Cross is now the eternal trophy of God’s triumph over sin!
The cross stripped religion (much still practiced today..alter calls preaching sin ect). of its authority to manipulate mankind with guilt. Every accusation lost its leverage to blackmail the human race with condemnation and shame! The word, 1apekduomai, is translated from apo, away from, and ekduo, to be stripped of clothing; to disarm; the religious facade that disguised the law of works as a means of defining a person’s life, was openly defeated. Same word used in Col 3:9. The dominance of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [poneros, hard work and labor] was ended. The word, 2deikmatizo, means to exhibit in public. See 3commentary below of the words arche, rule and exousia, authority. The word, 4parresia, comes from pas, all and rheo, outspokenness,
