The Letters to Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians (Biblia.com)

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Here are Barclay’s offerings on these important New Testament texts. Written by Paul while in prison at Rome, the letter to the Philippians is concerned with the theological identification of Jesus both as God and human. The Letter to the Colossians combats heretical Gnostic teachings, declaring that God created the world through Jesus Christ, God’s own Son. The two letters to the Thessalonians...

(1) As the Gnostics saw it, the creator was not God but someone hostile to him; and the world was not God’s world but the world of a power hostile to him. That is why Paul insists that God did create the world, and that his agent in creation was no ignorant and hostile emanation but Jesus Christ, his Son (Colossians 1:16). (2) As the Gnostics saw it, Jesus Christ was by no means unique. We have seen how they put forward the belief in a whole series of emanations between the world and God. They insisted

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