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Notes on Colossians
Notes on Colossians 2 0 1 9 E d i t i o n Dr. Thomas L. Constable HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. The city of Colosse lay in the beautiful Lycus Valley about 100 miles east of Ephesus. It had been an important town during the Greek and Persian War of the fifth century Since then, new trade routes had carried most traffic to its neighboring towns of Laodicea and Hierapolis, and had left Colosse only a country village. Unlike Laodicea and Hierapolis, archaeologists have not yet excavated the site of " the Greek historian and geographer Strabo, writing about two generations before Paul wrote Colossians , calls the Colosse of his day 'a small town' (Geography ).
The false teaching also contained a philosophic appeal, whether Oriental or Hellenistic we cannot be sure (2:8). ... Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus and to Philemon, p. 17. 2021 Edition Dr. Constable's Notes on Colossians 5 epistle (4:7-14). This view of the letter's origin generally fits the facts ... Epistles of Paul.3 Baxter saw the same ...
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