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Epistle to the Colossians

noun

A New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the Colossians in ancient Phrygia. Synonyms: Colossians, Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians.

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... what are called the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity are rather found in the Epistles than in the Gospels. If we wish the clearest statements of the nature and person of Christ, we turn to Paul's Epistle to the Colossians. If we wish the fullest dissertation upon Christ's work as a sacrifice, we go to the Epistle to the Hebrews. If we seek to prove that men are justified by faith, and not by works, it is to the Epistles to Romans and Galatians that we betake ourselves,—to the ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

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... The Epistle to the Colossians—The Church at Colossae. The Occasion. Central Thought. Time and Place of Writing. Principal ...

— Bible Studies in the Life of Paul - Historical and Constructive • Henry T. Sell

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... east, shall be opened on the day of the new moon"; and the meat offering on "the day of the new moon shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram." If there was no sacred significance in the observance of these lunar changes, why did the writer of the New Testament Epistle to the Colossians say, "Let no man judge you in respect of the new moon"? A competent scholar, in recognising this consociation of Hebrew religion with the moon's phases, rightly ascribes to it an earlier origin. Says Ewald: "To connect the annual festivals with the full moon, and to commence them ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

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Words linked to "Epistle to the Colossians" : Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians, New Testament, epistle, Colossians