These exhortations, i.e., this part of the letter, are not intended to meet a second and different need of the Colossians, not one that is apart from their need of warning against the Judaizers. The very way in which Paul links this new part to the preceding excludes this idea. Moreover, the answer which the Colossians give to the Judaizers must not consist only in doctrine but must also include the practice and the life based on the doctrine. Thus Paul recalls for the Colossians all the doctrinal
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