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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.
The three letters on which scholars are about evenly divided: [1] If these letters are inauthentic, then the consensus dates are probably incorrect. Second Thessalonians (c. 51–52) Colossians (c. 57–59 or c. 62)
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 ...
Kiley notes that while every one of Paul's main letters wish for financial report, Colossians is mysteriously lacking such a request. The connection between Colossians and Philemon, an undisputed letter, is significant. A certain Archippus is referred to in both Philemon 2 and Colossians 4:17, and the greetings of both letters bear similar ...
In writing to the Colossians, Paul the Apostle sends greetings to them through a Laodicean named Nymphas and the church at their house (Col 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). If the Colossian ...
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.
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The Epistle to Philemon [a] is one of the books of the Christian New Testament.It is a prison letter, authored by Paul the Apostle (the opening verse also mentions Timothy), to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church.