Reading for July 9th

Read Colossians 3.1-4.6
In verse 1 Right hand of God, see Ps 110.1.
In verses 5-11 on the use of vice lists in Paul, see Rom 1.29-31; Gal 5.19-21.
Hellenistic teachers often used vice and virtue lists to challenge their students.
In verse 11 Barbarian, non-Greek.
Scythian, a wild person; no longer will there be different ethnic groups, nor groups and sub-groups.
The author commends ethnic and class equality but not the equality of the sexes as found in Gal 3.28.
In verse 16 see Eph 5.19.
In verses 3.18-4.1 household codes governed life within the extended family.
See Eph 5.22-6.9; 1 Tim 2.8-15; 6.1-2; Titus 2.1-10; 1 Pet 2.13-3.7.
In verse 5 making the most of time, see Eph 5.16.
In verse 6 seasoned with salt, carefully or wisely selected.
See Mk 9.49-50; Mt 5.13.
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