In light of the believers’ sharing in the resurrection of Christ, they are called to “seek the things above.” With the definite article τά), the adverb “above” (ἄνω) takes on a substantive sense: “the things above.” Since this adverb is used substantivally only here (and in v. 2) in the NT, some scholars argue that “this is another of the catchwords of the philosophy.”8 If so, what is striking is not Paul’s call to “seek the things above,” but his further explication of that which is above. While