Reading for June 21st

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE HOPE
2.20-4.6 Life with Christ governs regulations about  food and drink and relations with other Christian family member, and outsiders.
An initial transition (2.20-23) revels the practical implications of death with Christ.
Another transition (3.1-4) commends the life raised with Christ, followed by a vice list (3.5-11), a virtue list 12-17), and household duties 3.18-4.6)

Read Colossians 2.20-3.11
In 3.1: 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.
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