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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 ).

Colosse only a country village. Unlike Laodicea and Hierapolis, archaeologists have not yet excavated the site of Colosse.1 "… the Greek historian and geographer Strabo, writing about two generations before Paul wrote Colossians, calls the Colosse of his day 'a small town' (Geography XII.viii.13)."2 The inhabitants of Colosse were mainly ...

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