Read Colossians 1.24-2.19. In 2.24-2.19: A personal witness and a warning. An autobiographical sketch describes the church's maturation (1.24-2.5) and leads to a warning against deviating from the truth (2.6-19). In 1.24; A certain amount of suffering is assumed to be necessary (see 1 Thess 3.3) before the end can arrive. Completing ... Christ's affliction, any suffering brings the end sooner. In verses 26-27: The mystery is Christ in you, the image of Christ growing in you. In verse 29: Toil, struggle, the effort to bring about the community's maturity. See I Thess 2.9. In 2.6; Live your lives, "conduct" your lives, see 1.10. In verses 8-19: The warning: Although the heresy appears as wisdom because its ascetic and ritualistic practices, Christ's death and resurrection are sufficient to bring the believers lives into the new dominion. In verse 8: Takes you captive, false teachers are like robbers or kidnappers. In verses 11-12: Putting off, buried with him in baptism, baptismal images joined with spiritual circumcision to describe entry into a new life (see Gal 3.27). In verse 14: record, a note of debt.. In verse 15: Disarmed. stripped of power. Roman emperors led captives in a public triumphal procession. In verse 17; Shadow and substance, a familiar contrast in Greek thought (see Plato's republic 514a-518b). In verse 18: Angel's worship, worship offered to angels or worship offered by angels, probably the latter. Comments or Questions..
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