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Exhibiting the same brilliant exegesis and sound practical insight found in his previous works, noted commentator Douglas J. Moo, in this new volume, not only explains accurately the meaning of the letters to the Colossians and to Philemon but also applies that meaning powerfully to twenty-first-century readers. Moo attentively interacts with the Greek text of these letters and clearly explains...

the Old Testament and Judaism, as John puts it, “no one has ever seen God” (1:18); he is, as Paul puts it here, invisible (aoratos).135 A major question, therefore, in Jewish theology at the time, with parallels in the Greco-Roman world, was this: where can God be seen? In this respect, Colossians 1:15 is similar to John’s depiction of the “Word” in 1:1–18—the Word was “with God” and “was God” (v. 1) and thus has “made him known” (v. 18)—and to Hebrews 1:3—“the Son is the radiance of God’s glory
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