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The letter ends with customary prayer, instruction, and greetings. [7] 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.
Paul's own writings are sometimes thought to indicate several of his letters that have not been preserved: A first, or "zeroth", epistle to Corinth, also called A Prior Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, [16] or Paul's previous Corinthian letter, [17] possibly referenced at 1 Corinthians 5:9. [18]
This letter is generally regarded as being lost.However, some ancient sources, such as Hippolytus of Rome, and some modern scholars consider that the epistle "from Laodicea" was never a lost epistle, but rather Paul re-using one of his other letters (the most common candidate is the canonical Epistle to the Ephesians), just as he asks for the copying and forwarding of the Letter to Colossians ...
The closest, Romans, has 3 out of 581 sentences of such length. E. J. Goodspeed, [35] and C. L. Mitton [36] argued the style was unlike Paul's other works. Many words in the letter are not in the "undisputed" epistles. However, still, some scholars do not find the style of Ephesians to be unlike Paul's authentic letters. [37]
Paul's letter to the Colossians points to the existence of an early Christian community. Colossae was home to the miracle near the Archangel church, where a sacristan named Archipos witnessed, how the Archangel Michael thwarted a plan by the heathens to destroy the church by flooding it with the waters of near-by mountain rivers.
Bifolio from Paul's Letter to the Romans, the end of Paul's Letter to the Philippians and the beginning of Paul's Letter to the Colossians. Papyrus 46 (P. Chester Beatty II), designated by siglum 𝔓 46 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri.
Downing Street and the Foreign Office are preparing to offer the incoming U.S. president an invitation once he is back in the White House, the report said, without citing specific sourcing. The ...
Commentary on the Epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians. ISBN 978-080282193-5. 328 pages; Fee, Gordon D. (1995). Paul's Letter to the Philippians. ISBN 978-0-8028-2511-7. 543 pages Replaced Müller, Jac J. (1955). The Epistles of Paul to the Philippians and to Philemon. ISBN 0-8028-2188-X. 200 pages; McKnight, Scot (2018). The Letter to ...