The point of God’s glory, in Jewish expectation, was that this glory would once again come to dwell in the renewed, restored Temple. Thus when we find, in Paul, the theme of God’s indwelling, we are dealing with the same notion, even though the word doxa itself may not occur. And, classically, we find just this in the first two chapters of Colossians. At the climax of the wonderful poem in chapter 1, Paul declares that in Jesus Christ eudokēsen pan to plēroma katoikēsai, ‘all the Fullness’—in other
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