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Colossians 3:22-24 instructs slaves to obey their masters and serve them sincerely, in return for an "inheritance" [35] from God in the afterlife. Colossians 4:1 instructs masters to "provide your slaves with what is right and fair" [36] because God is in turn their master.
Similarly, though Paul envisions Christ's triumph over rulers and authorities as a future event (1 Cor 15:24), Colossians 2:15 acknowledges this as having already occurred. [29] Another intriguing distinction between the Colossian correspondence and the "7 authentic letters" is the lack of a financial request for the poor in Jerusalem. [30]
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) is a twenty-nine volume set of commentaries on the Bible published by InterVarsity Press. It is a confessionally collaborative project as individual editors have included scholars from Eastern Orthodoxy , Roman Catholicism , and Protestantism as well as Jewish participation. [ 1 ]
In writing to the Colossians, Paul the Apostle sends greetings to them through a Laodicean named Nymphas and the church at their house (4:15). He additionally greets Archippus, who might also be from Laodicea (4:17), and he instructs the Colossians to exchange his letter with one he has written to the Laodiceans (4:16). This would indicate a ...
By 4 November 2016 a similar statement was issued by the publishers Zondervan regarding O'Brien's Colossians – Philemon volume in the Word Biblical Commentary series. [10] Each statement contains expressions of regret and evidences considerable reluctance in taking these actions.
An Introduction to the New Testament (2004) and A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (NICNT, 1996, 2018) Douglas J. Moo (born March 15, 1950 [ 1 ] ) is a Reformed New Testament scholar who, after teaching for more than twenty years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois , served as Blanchard Professor of New Testament at the ...
The language of a new creation is not limited to the two verses in the Authorized King James Version that include that actual phrase (Gal. 6:15, 2 Cor 5:17). Other passages, such as Galatians 6:12-16, 2 Corinthians 5:14-19, Ephesians 2:11-22, Ephesians 4:17-24, and Colossians 3:1-11 present new creation teaching also, without that exact phrase.
F.F. Bruce was born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, in 1910.His father, Peter Fyvie Bruce, was an itinerant evangelist for the Plymouth Brethren. [5] He encouraged his son to think for himself and accept as a biblical doctrine only what he could see for himself in the Bible.