0000037685 00000 n Compare Acts 8:21, where the two words are coordinated. Understanding is the critical apprehension of particulars growing out of wisdom, which apprehension is practically applied by φρόνησις prudence, see on Luke 1:17; see on Ephesians 1:8. Scriptures, Fro m ww w. heart w i sdom s tu d i e s. co m. 1. All other substitutes pale in comparison to the real thing! Compare ἑδραίωμα ground, 1 Timothy 3:15. The founder of this church was Epaphras who, ironically, joined Paul in prison and told him of all the false teachings infiltrating the church as Colossae (Acts 28,Col4:12, 13). By wicked works (ἐν τοῖς ἔγροις τοῖς πονηροῖς). He is not the first-born of all creation as being himself created" (Dwight). Both words are emphatic. Under Antiochus the Great, two thousand Jewish families had been transplanted into Phrygia and Lydia; and while the staple of the church was Gentile, the epistle distinctly recognizes the presence and operation of Jewish influences (Colossians 2:16-21). How much our theological conceptions suffer in breadth and fullness by the neglect, a moment's reflection will show. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. google_ad_host="pub-6693688277674466"; Compare Romans 8:24. Rev., before Him. Warning to Guard against the False Teachers (2:8-15), B. Πρωτεύω to be first only here in the New Testament. This church like the present church is to be about the business of putting off the old humanity and putting on the new life in Christ (3:1-17). Here the meaning is stewardship - the office of a steward or administrator in God's house. The pretended wisdom is denounced as deceitful philosophy, founded in tradition, and both its Gentile and its Jewish phases are characterized as mere elements or rudiments, unworthy of men in Christ (Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:20). “4x/3v” means the word appears 4 times in 3 verses. However, please be sure to link back to karikingdent.com. The willing submission is to be done with all sincerity. Beginning, with reference to the Church; not the beginning of the Church, but of the new life which subsists in the body - the Church. Lacking, lit., behind. Unreprovable, not only actually free from blemish, but from the charge of it. Here it is: 1. But in all cases this pleroma was distributed, diluted, transformed, and darkened by foreign admixture. 114 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<8E6A587A429A8042AC9D238C45ED89D5>]/Index[91 45]/Info 90 0 R/Length 106/Prev 58664/Root 92 0 R/Size 136/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream alters desire to ask. All Rights Reserved. Commentary, The Arguments from Style,” Vox Evangelica, Gregory T. Christopher, “A discourse analysis of Colossians 2:16-3:17,” Grace Theological Journal, Larry L. Helyer, “Cosmic Christology and Colossians 1:15-20,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Larry L. Helyer, “Colossians 1:15-20: Pre-Pauline or Pauline,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, J. P. T. Hunt, “Colossians 2:11-12, the Circumcision / Baptism Analogy, and Infant Baptism,” Tyndale Bulletin, Jeffrey Lamp – Wisdom in Colossians 1:15-20: Contribution and Significance, William L. Lane, “Creed and theology: reflections on Colossians,” JETS, Colossians 1-15-20 A Christological Poem- The Cosmological and Soteriological Preeminence of the Christ – Scott Stephens, Wayne McCown, “The Hymnic Structure of Colossians 1:15-20,” The Evangelical Quarterly, R. P. Martin, “An Early Christian Hymn (Colossians 1:5-20),” The Evangelical Quarterly, “Reconciliation and Forgiveness in the Letter to the Colossians,”, Stephen Motyer, “The Relationship Between Paul’s Gospel of ‘All One in Christ Jesus’ (Gal. Against Colossians in particular it is urged that the errors it attacks are later than Paul's date. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 0000002287 00000 n Thanks for stopping by! Only here, Colossians 1:21, and Ephesians 2:16. He cares both about the prayer closet and the public street, and He wants us to care about both also. Lit., of the God, the invisible. As such, the universe could not find its consummation in Him. In the New Testament the word signifies both the sentiment of hope and the thing hoped for. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and, Continue in the faith (ἐπιμένετε τῇ πίστει). Paul dedicates an enormous amount of his letter to the Colossians about how Christians are to live; from the inner life in Christ to the outer life in Christ. The identity of the “letter from Laodicea” (4:16) has also prompted much discussion. endstream endobj 92 0 obj <. Without the article it would be all things severally. "The latter describes the definite, historical act of creation; the former the continuous and present relations of creation to the Creator" (Lightfoot). Soak it all in! �l��\�z�_����p��as8�� 0��{����d8� ����,H�uU��>���Q`����(~�L>/?���H ��q���_-(����ˇ���4O8_ɬ�+zC���hV���R&- See on 2 Corinthians 5:17, and compare Colossians 1:15. See on 1 Corinthians 1:11. gives the correct adverbial rendering worthily. In Christ is a very common phrase with Paul to express the Church's relation to Him. They discountenanced marriage, and foreswore oil, wine, and animal food. Hence used very commonly with words denoting revelation or knowledge. See on Romans 6:1. The Church is described as a body, Romans 12:4 sq. So Clement of Rome: "Who have labored (κοπιάσαντες) much, and contended (ἀγωνισάμενοι) honorably" (ii. It was a hollow and deceptive philosophy (2:8), lacking any ability to restrain the old sinful nature (2:23). Now is temporal: in the midst of my imprisonment and sufferings, after having become a minister of the Gospel, and having preached it. See 1 Corinthians 7:37; 1 Corinthians 15:58, the only other passages where it occurs. The absence of peculiarly Pauline words and phrases it is only necessary flatly to deny. For similar emphasis on the pronoun, see Ephesians 2:14; Ephesians 4:10, Ephesians 4:11; 1 John 2:2; Revelation 19:15. Compare viii. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Connect with your love. Patience - long-suffering (ὑπομονὴν - μακροθυμίαν). Some connect with giving thanks, Colossians 1:12, and this is favored by the construction of the previous clauses: in every good work bearing fruit: with all power strengthened: with joy giving thanks. Γνῶσις knowledge is used but once, while ἐπίγνωσις full knowledge, occurs four times, emphasizing the knowledge of God and of Christ as the perfection of knowledge. The preposition ἀπὸ from, differs from πρό before (1 Corinthians 2:7), as marking the point from which concealment could properly begin. The theme of this letter can be expressed by these words which are part of the apostle's introductory prayer for the Colossian Christians: May you be strengthened with all power [that is why he wrote the letter], according to his glorious might [that is the subject of the letter to the Colossians]. It is the very compression of the thoughts which creates the difficulty. Though Gnosticism, as such, had not developed itself at this time, a knowledge of its principal features is necessary to an intelligent reading of this epistle. Hence God's kingdom is in the present, no less than in heaven. Compare Colossians 2:2, Colossians 2:3. Rev., in margin, laid up for. The variations in style are no greater than those which appear in different writings by the same author. The richness exhibited itself in the free dispensation of the Gospel to the Gentile as well as to the Jew. That which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ (τὰ ὑστερήματα τῶν θλίψεων τοῦ Χριστοῦ). Of the afflictions of Christ. Phrygia was a favorable soil for the development of error. The region is volcanic, and the earthquakes common to large portions of Asia Minor are here peculiarly severe. Compare 1 Thessalonians 3:13, and Ephesians 5:27, which corresponds with the figure of the bride, the Lamb's wife, in Revelation 21:9 sqq. For similar emphatic repetitions of all or every, compare 1 Corinthians 10:1, 1 Corinthians 10:2; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Romans 9:6, Romans 9:7; Romans 11:32, etc. Paul never visited either of the three cities. 135 0 obj <>stream Compare Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Romans 8:38; Colossians 2:10, Colossians 2:15; Titus 3:1. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:19; Ephesians 1:19, Ephesians 1:20, Ephesians 1:23. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. See on shewed himself, Acts 1:3. Compare 1 Timothy 1:1. The first-born from the dead (πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν). And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”, Colossians 3:16 “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.”, Colossians 3:18-21 “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. The best texts omit and. being in or at work. 0000001181 00000 n Not as our idiom, rejoice in, as rejoice in the Lord, but in the midst of; while enduring. The words occur together in Mark 11:24. 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