Death And Life

Mortui enim estis, et vita vestra abscondita est cum Christo in Deo. Apud mundi sensum mortuus Christus videtur, et discipuli ejus, cum constet vivere illum cum his omnibus. Idcirco carnalibus ac mundanis abscondita est vita Christi et suorum in Deo extra mundum, in regno ejus coelesti, in quo vivunt. Cum Christus apparuerit vita vestra, tunc et vos apparebitis cum illo in gloria. Vita nostra Christus est; quia legimus in Actis apostolorum hunc esse vitae auctorem, qui a perfidis non creditur futurus judex. Cum autem advenerit in virtute coelesti, et visus fuerit esse, quod minime credebatur, tunc apparebunt cum illo etiam qui crediderunt in illum; et manifestabitur omni perfidiae, quia vivit cum suis in gloria. Haec consolatio fiduciam spei parit; ut securi de futura vita, omnia postponentes, Christum sequamur. Ambrosiaster, Commentaria In Epistolam ad Colossenses, Caput III Source: Migne PL 17.434b-c

For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 1 According to the understanding of the world Christ seems to be dead, and likewise His disciples, yet it is certain He lives on with all of them. Therefore the life of Christ and His followers is hidden to the carnal and the worldly in God outside the world. When Christ your life shall appear, then even you shall appear with Him in glory. Christ is our life, because we read in the Acts of the Apostles that He is the creator of life, He who the faithless do not believe will be the future judge. 2 But when He shall come in the power of heaven and He is seen, which few believed, then those who have believed in Him shall appear with Him, and every faithlessness shall be exposed, because He lives with His followers in glory. This is the consolation of firm hope, so that confident of the future we may set aside all other things and follow Christ. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Letter to The Colossians, Chapter 3 1 Colos 3.2 2 Acts 3.15