Firmness in Faith. Part 2
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Moving into the mystery.
The ultimate goal, for Paul, was to “know the mystery of God, namely Christ” in the fellowship of the church.
Christ, the treasure of wisdom and knowledge. V.3
The combination of “hidden” and “treasure” is a natural one, then and now, since hiding the treasure was often the means of securing and protecting it. And the use of “hidden” in this verse does not have an implicit contrast with “revealed,” since Paul’s point, of course, is that wisdom and knowledge are now freely available in Christ. They are “hidden” in Christ in the sense that they are “treasures” that have been deposited in him and are now stored up in him. Anyone who comes to know Christ by faith can draw from his store all the wisdom and knowledge that exists.