Colosenses 1:8

8 quien también nos ha declarado vuestra caridad en Espíritu.

Colosenses 1:8 Meaning and Commentary

Colossians 1:8

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
] Not only their love to God, and Christ, and to all the saints, which is before mentioned, but their love to the apostle; though they had only heard of him, and of his great capacity for, and faithfulness and usefulness in preaching of the Gospel, which had greatly endeared him to them. This, he says, was in the Spirit; it was spiritual love, to distinguish it from a carnal and worldly one; they loved him for the spiritual grace that was in him, the spiritual gifts bestowed on him, the spiritual service he was engaged in, and the spiritual usefulness he was of: or they loved him in, and with their spirits, with all their hearts, sincerely, and without dissimulation; and though they had never seen him in the flesh, yet being, as it were, present with him in spirit, their affections were knit unto him: or this their love was "in the Holy Spirit", as the Ethiopic version reads it; it was a fruit of the Spirit of God, which he had implanted in their hearts in regeneration, as is also love to God, and likewise to Christ.

Colosenses 1:8 In-Context

6 el cual ha llegado hasta vosotros, como está por todo el mundo; y fructifica, como también en vosotros, desde el día que oísteis y conocisteis la gracia de Dios en verdad,

7 como lo habéis aprendido de Epafras, nuestro consiervo amado, el cual es para vosotros un fiel ministro de Cristo Jesús;

8 quien también nos ha declarado vuestra caridad en Espíritu.

9 Por lo cual también nosotros, desde el día que lo oímos, no cesamos de orar por vosotros, y de pedir a Dios que seáis llenos del conocimiento de su voluntad, en toda sabiduría y entendimiento espiritual;

10 para que andéis como es digno del Señor, agradándole en todo, fructificando en toda buena obra, y creciendo en el conocimiento de Dios.