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Colossians Flashcards

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City of Collosae

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Not a major city, but still in Asia

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Region Colossae was in

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Phrygia

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3
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Length from Ephesus

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190km

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4
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Influence

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Not very much Roman, mostly Greek

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5
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Origin of Christian community

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Hard to determine, maybe from Jerusalem?

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Authorship

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Disputed, same as Ephesians

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Co author

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Timothy

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8
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Letter bearer

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Tychicus

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Date

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Early in Paul’s Roman imprisonment (60-62AD)

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Colossian heresy

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False teaching, philosophy, harsh treatment of the body?

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Paul’s concern

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Losing connection with the head (Christ)

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12
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Christology

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Christ is all-encompassing

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13
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3:10

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Christ is all and in all

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Chapter 1

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Jesus is AT THE CENTRE OF ALL

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15
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Colossians and Philippians similar person

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Epaphras (C) and Epaphroditus (P)

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16
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Paul’s identification

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Apostle

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17
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Thanks for Colossians’…

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Faith, hope, and love

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18
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Faith appears this many times

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14

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19
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Person who visited Paul but isn’t taking the letter back

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Epaphras

20
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Knowledge: language similar to…?

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Ephesians

21
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Greek word to walk

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Peripateo

22
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Christ Poem

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Verses 15-20, similar to Christ Hymn in Philippians

23
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Reconciliation

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Accomplished through the cross, Jesus’ blood

24
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Mystery in Ephesians vs. Colossians

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Gentiles sharing as heirs in the Kingdom (E), Christ as our hope and present future (C)

25
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Chapter 2

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Don’t be captured by false teachings

26
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Circumcision of…

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The heart

27
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Cross

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Triumph, but would have typically be seen as shameful in Roman culture

28
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Do not submit to…

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Your dead life

29
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False teachings

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Food and drink, festivals, sabbaths, new moons, regulations, self-abasement (central elements to Judaism)

30
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Christ is…

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The true Spirit and the true flesh, CENTRAL to everything

31
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Chapter 3

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Starts with “so” (connection to chapter 2)

Dead and made alive

32
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Prefix use (ch. 2)

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Syn - together

33
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Continue to…

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Put dead things to death, do not allow them to come back to life

34
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Binds everything together

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Love

35
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Theme

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Gratitude

36
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Household rules

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Shorter than in Ephesians, more directed at slaves (likely sent along with Philemon’s letter)

37
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Chapter 4

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“Us” and “we” language (Paul and Timothy), be wise

38
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Request and instructions similar to…

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Ephesians

39
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Salt reference

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SotM?

40
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Closing length

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Longer than Ephesians, more personal

41
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Bearers of the letter

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Onesimus and Tychicus

42
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Onesimus

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Brother

43
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Tychicus

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Slave, servant

44
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Paul finding comfort

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In talking with people with to Jewish background like himself

45
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Epaphras

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Struggling in prayer from them

46
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Nympha

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Like Lydia in Philippians, Chloe in Romans

47
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Exchange letter with…

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Laodiceans

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