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Colossians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Colossians offers a valuable and intimate glimpse into the life of a fledgling Christian community as it struggled to define Christian doctrine and theology. Paul was prompted to write to the Colossian assembly when he heard that “false teachers” had joined the congregation and were advocating dangerous, non-Christian practices. In an effort to appear superior,...

genitive of content,119 or as genitive of purpose,120 are neither mutually exclusive possibilities, nor do they reflect weighty contextual differences (cf. also E. Schweizer, p. 156). 15 And let the peace of the Messiah rule in your hearts. Eirēnē (peace) has a more encompassing meaning than simply peace and can also be rendered by welfare, well-being, salvation. This is more precisely elaborated in Notes to Col 1:20, where the verb “to create peace” (eirēnopoieo) is an explanatory description
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