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In the letter to the Colossians, Paul offers a compelling vision of the Christian life; his claims transcend religion and bring politics, culture, spirituality, power, ethnicity, and more into play. This exegetical and theological commentary by Scot McKnight delves deeply into Paul’s message in Colossians and draws out the theology that underpins it. McKnight interacts closely with the text of...

descriptors: they are saints (holy people), and they are faithful.30 The word “saints,” or “holy people,” is commonly connected to the idea of separation, but C. F. D. Moule gets it right when he says the term is “perhaps best rendered ‘dedicated’, ‘God’s own’, because it represents the O.T. conception of ‘the dedicated people’ whose members are ‘the dedicated ones.’ ”31 To define holiness as “separation from” is only half the story this term tells, and in fact it tells only the second and less important
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