Commentary on Colossians

Leo the Great (400–461)

"Snatched from the powers of darkness" at such a great "price," and by so great a "mystery," and loosed from the chains of the ancient captivity, make sure, dearly beloved, that the devil does not destroy the integrity of your souls with any stratagem. Whatever is forced on you contrary to the Christian faith, whatever is presented to you contrary to the commandments of God, it comes from the deceptions of the one who tries with many wiles to divert you from eternal life, and, by seizing certain occasions of human weakness, leads careless and negligent souls again into his snares of death. Let all those reborn through water and the Holy Spirit consider the one whom they have renounced. -.

Let those then "who were born not from blood, nor from the will of the flesh, but from God" offer concord to God as peaceloving children. Let all the adopted members join together into that "firstborn" of new "creation" who came "not to do his own will, but that of the one who sent him." .

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