Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 1:5

5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven , whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel .

Hope here in this description of it seems chiefly by a Metonymie to be put for the glorious eternal Salvation hoped for, Rom. 8.24. Eph. 1.18. which may also include that lively grace whereby we lay hold of eternal life contained in the Promise, Tit. 1.2. This indeed is set before Believers here to encourage them to fly unto Christ for refuge, Heb. 6.18. and reserved in the Heavens for them, 1 Pet. 1.4. which may well quicken in Christian love to all the Members of Christ in every condition: yet not with a mercinary affection, 2 Cor. 5.14. as if any by Offices of Christian love to Brethren could merit what is laid up for those who exercise Faith, Love, and Hope, but that God of his meer grace and undeserved love is pleased to reward such as diligently seek him, and thereby gives an exact evidence of his admirable liberality, Heb. 11.6. which will abundantly weigh down those light afflictions they sustain here, 2 Cor. 4.17.

Hereupon he puts them in mind of the means whereby they attained to this good Hope when they first embraced the Gospel, viz. by hearing, Rom. 10.14. the Word of Truth eminently, 2 Cor. 6.7, Eph. 1.13. not onely because it is the Word of Jesus Christ, who is the Truth, and the Life, Ioh. 14.6. but because the Gospel (which is here put appositively) is the most excellent of all Truths, surpassing all in Philosophy, and the law, Ioh. 1.17.