In the passages from Col, “the fulness” in Christ is contrasted with the mediating aeons or angelpowers or spiritual manifestations supposed to be intermediate between God and the world. The false teachers at Colossae seem to have used “fulness,” as a technical or semi-technical term, for the purpose of their philosophical or theosophical teaching, employing it to signify the entire series of angels or aeons, which filled the space or interval between a holy God and a world of matter,