+I. Ye are dead.+--1. _In your original state of unconcern and
unbelief ye are dead._ 2. _By the Holy Ghost you are made to
recognise this death as real and to acquiesce in it as just._ 3. _You
continue to be thus dead with Christ._
+II. Your life is hid with Christ.+--1. _As partakers of His right to
live._ 2. _In respect of the new spirit of your life._ 3. _Your life
being with Christ must be where He is._ In God as its source, its
centre, its pattern. 4. _This life with Christ is hid._ For security;
in its intimacy; as separated from the world; is not to be always
hidden (ver. 4).--_R. S. Candlish._