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Colossians 1:12
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1 Enoch 58:5
Colossians 1:15
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Wisdom of Solomon 7:22
Colossians 1:15
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Philo On the Confusion of Tongues
Colossians 1:16
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2 Enoch 20:1
Colossians 1:16
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Wisdom of Solomon 9:9
Colossians 1:16
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1 Enoch 61:10
Colossians 1:16
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Testament of Levi 3:9
Colossians 1:17
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Wisdom of Solomon 1:7
Colossians 1:17
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Sirach 43:26
Colossians 1:17
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Plato Timaeus
Colossians 2:3
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1 Enoch 46:2
Colossians 2:9
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Aratus Phaenomena
Colossians 2:18
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Colossians 3:5
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Testament of Judah 19:1
Colossians 3:10
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LXX Genesis 1:27
Colossians 3:12
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Plutarch Moralia 489
Colossians 3:18
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8:30
Colossians 3:18
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Philo The Decalogue 1:165
Colossians 3:18
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Polycarp Epistle to the Philippians 4:2
Colossians 3:18
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Philo The Special Laws
Colossians 3:18
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1 Clement 21:6
Colossians 3:22
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8:31
Colossians 3:22
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Didache 4:11
Colossians 3:22
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Barnabas 19:7
Colossians 3:24
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Deuteronomy 10:20
Colossians 3:25
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Sirach 2:8
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Summary
Date: 54-56 C.E. (If authentic), 80-85 C.E. (If anonymous)
Written to Christians at Colossae, the letter addresses issues brought up by Epaphras to Paul. Scholarship is divided if this is an authentic letter from Paul or perhaps represents a Pauline school from a region such as Ephesus. Early in the first Chapter, the author draws on a Christological hymn which becomes the means of addressing false teachers, of which may have been an early form of Gnosticism. The ultimate aim of the letter is how these believers should live - vices to avoid and virtues to pursue.
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