that he knew that he did not know, whereas others equally did not know, but thought they did.89 But when knowledge was cultivated for its own sake, as it was in some sections of the church of Corinth, it can be appreciated “into how congenial a soil the seeds of Gnosticism were about to fall.”90 While the Colossian heresy was basically Jewish, it is not the straightforward Judaizing legalism of Galatians that is envisaged in Colossians, but a form of mysticism which tempted its adepts to look on