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J.B. Lightfoot’s classic commentary on the Greek versions of letters of Colossians and Philemon. Contains extensive verse-by-verse exegetical commentary, as well as “dissertations” on the history and setting of the epistles, the Colossian Heresy, various versions and major variant readings, the Epistle from Laodicea, and several articles on the Essenes. Dr. Joseph Barber Lightfoot was educated...

τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ (comp. 3:18 τὴν αὐτὴν εἰκόνα μεταμορφούμεθα). Closely allied to εἰκὼν also is χαρακτήρ, which appears in the same connexion in Heb. 1:3 ὤν ἀπαύγασμα τῆς δόξης καὶ χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ, a passage illustrated by Philo de Plant. 5 (1. p. 332) σφραγο͂δι Θεοῦ ἧς ὁ χαρακτὴρ ἐστιν ἀΐδιος λόγος. See also Phil. 2:6 ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων. Beyond the very obvious notion of likeness, the word εἰκών involves two other
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