Read Colossians 3.12-4.6
In verse 16: See Eph 5.19.
In 3.18-4.1: House hold 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 8.49-50; Mt 5.13.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
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.
Comments or Questions..
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.
Comments or Questions..
Friday, June 12, 2020
Reading for June 20th
Read Colossians 1.24-2.19
In 1.24-2.19: 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 (2.6-2.19).
In verse 24: A certain amount of suffering is assumed to be necessary (see 1 Thess 3.3) before the end can arrive.
Completing .. Christ's afflictions, any suffering brings the end sooner.
In verse 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 1 Thess 2.9.
In 2.6: Live your lives, "conduct" your lives; see 1.10.
In verse 8-19: The warning: Although the heresy appears as wisdom because of it ascetic and ritualistic practices, Christ's death and resurrection are sufficient to bring the believers' lives into a new dominion.
In verse *: takes you captive, false teachers are like robbers or kidnappers.
In verse 11-12: putting off, buried with him in baptism, baptismal images joined with spiritual circumcision to describe entry into the new life (see Gal 3.27).
In verse 14: Record, a note or debt.
In verse 15: Disarmed. stripped of power.
Roman emperors led captives in public triumphal processions.
In verse 17: Shadow and substance,a familiar contrast in Greek thought (see Plato's Republic 514a-518b).
In verse 18: Angels' worship, worship offered to angels or worship offered by angels, probably the later.
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In 1.24-2.19: 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 (2.6-2.19).
In verse 24: A certain amount of suffering is assumed to be necessary (see 1 Thess 3.3) before the end can arrive.
Completing .. Christ's afflictions, any suffering brings the end sooner.
In verse 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 1 Thess 2.9.
In 2.6: Live your lives, "conduct" your lives; see 1.10.
In verse 8-19: The warning: Although the heresy appears as wisdom because of it ascetic and ritualistic practices, Christ's death and resurrection are sufficient to bring the believers' lives into a new dominion.
In verse *: takes you captive, false teachers are like robbers or kidnappers.
In verse 11-12: putting off, buried with him in baptism, baptismal images joined with spiritual circumcision to describe entry into the new life (see Gal 3.27).
In verse 14: Record, a note or debt.
In verse 15: Disarmed. stripped of power.
Roman emperors led captives in public triumphal processions.
In verse 17: Shadow and substance,a familiar contrast in Greek thought (see Plato's Republic 514a-518b).
In verse 18: Angels' worship, worship offered to angels or worship offered by angels, probably the later.
Comments or Questions..
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Reading for June 19th
Read Colossians 1.15-23
In 1.15-23: A hymn to the universal Christ and comment on his redeeming work.
Christ, the cosmic agent of creation, has reconciled creation's warring elements (vv. 15-20), and the reconciled must remain faithful to their early teachings to ensure maturity (vv. 21.23).
In verses 15-20: The hymn's origin is unknown, but if not Christian it may be an adaption from a Greek mystery religion, a Jewish text about the Son of Man and the end times, or a Hellenistic Jewish wisdom text like pro 8.22-31 or Sir 24.1-22.
It easily divides into two: Christ as the agent of creation (vv. 15-18a) and Christ as an agent of redemption (vv. 18-20).
In verse 16: Christ's role in creation is like the role of Wisdom (see prov 8.22-26; Sir 24.9).
In verse 18: head of the body, see 2.19; Eph 1.22-23.
In verse 20: Reconcile, restore to friendship from enmity.
See 1.22; Rom 5.10; 1 Cor 7.11; 2 Cor 5.18-21; Eph 2.16.
A direct exhortation to the recipients: God has reconciled them and they will be blameless before God if they are steadfast.
In verse 21: Estranged, alienated or unfamiliar with something.
See Eph 2.12;4.18.
Comments or Questions..
In 1.15-23: A hymn to the universal Christ and comment on his redeeming work.
Christ, the cosmic agent of creation, has reconciled creation's warring elements (vv. 15-20), and the reconciled must remain faithful to their early teachings to ensure maturity (vv. 21.23).
In verses 15-20: The hymn's origin is unknown, but if not Christian it may be an adaption from a Greek mystery religion, a Jewish text about the Son of Man and the end times, or a Hellenistic Jewish wisdom text like pro 8.22-31 or Sir 24.1-22.
It easily divides into two: Christ as the agent of creation (vv. 15-18a) and Christ as an agent of redemption (vv. 18-20).
In verse 16: Christ's role in creation is like the role of Wisdom (see prov 8.22-26; Sir 24.9).
In verse 18: head of the body, see 2.19; Eph 1.22-23.
In verse 20: Reconcile, restore to friendship from enmity.
See 1.22; Rom 5.10; 1 Cor 7.11; 2 Cor 5.18-21; Eph 2.16.
A direct exhortation to the recipients: God has reconciled them and they will be blameless before God if they are steadfast.
In verse 21: Estranged, alienated or unfamiliar with something.
See Eph 2.12;4.18.
Comments or Questions..
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Reading for June 18th
Read Colossians 1.3-14
In 1.3-14: prayers and God's redemption.
Two prayers (vv. 3-8, 9-12) revel the basis of the community's growth in faith: God rescued the believers from the power of darkness and moved them into the kingdom of his beloved son (v. 13).
In verses 3-8: Themes of growth and learning (1.28; 2.6; 3.10; 4.12) emphasize the fruitfulness of the gospel (v. 5) in increasing the knowledge of God's will (vv. 9-10) and in building the body of Christ (2.19).
Epaphras (v. 7) taught hope linked to Christ, unlike the "heresy" which downplays Christ (see 2.18-19).
In verse 5: Hope, no longer the firm expectation of God's promise but an object already available, laid up or stored up, though it awaits revelations.
In verse 6: bearing fruit and growing describes the gospel of God's grace.
In verse 7: Epaphras, 4.12; Phile 23.
In verses 9-12: A shift from past reception of the gospel to a fuller comprehension of God's will.
In verse 9: Knowledge ... spiritual wisdom and understanding.
All three have practical implications.
Wisdom (a favorite term; see 2.3, 23; 4.5) and understanding or insight are linked in the Hebrew Scriptures or their Greek translation (see Deut 1.13, 15; 1 kings 16.18; Isa 3.3).
In verse 10: lead or conduct: see 2.6; 3.7-17; 4.5.
In verse 12: Inheritance, share or allotment.
In verse 13-14: This basic statement of belief recites what God has done.
Comments or Questions..
In 1.3-14: prayers and God's redemption.
Two prayers (vv. 3-8, 9-12) revel the basis of the community's growth in faith: God rescued the believers from the power of darkness and moved them into the kingdom of his beloved son (v. 13).
In verses 3-8: Themes of growth and learning (1.28; 2.6; 3.10; 4.12) emphasize the fruitfulness of the gospel (v. 5) in increasing the knowledge of God's will (vv. 9-10) and in building the body of Christ (2.19).
Epaphras (v. 7) taught hope linked to Christ, unlike the "heresy" which downplays Christ (see 2.18-19).
In verse 5: Hope, no longer the firm expectation of God's promise but an object already available, laid up or stored up, though it awaits revelations.
In verse 6: bearing fruit and growing describes the gospel of God's grace.
In verse 7: Epaphras, 4.12; Phile 23.
In verses 9-12: A shift from past reception of the gospel to a fuller comprehension of God's will.
In verse 9: Knowledge ... spiritual wisdom and understanding.
All three have practical implications.
Wisdom (a favorite term; see 2.3, 23; 4.5) and understanding or insight are linked in the Hebrew Scriptures or their Greek translation (see Deut 1.13, 15; 1 kings 16.18; Isa 3.3).
In verse 10: lead or conduct: see 2.6; 3.7-17; 4.5.
In verse 12: Inheritance, share or allotment.
In verse 13-14: This basic statement of belief recites what God has done.
Comments or Questions..
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Reading for June 17th
Read Colossians 1.1-2
In 1.1-2: The epistolary opening.
See 2 Cor 1.1; gal 1.1.
In verse 1: Saints, holy ones, believers (2 Cor 1.1; Rom 1.7; Phil 1.1; Eph 1.1).
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In 1.1-2: The epistolary opening.
See 2 Cor 1.1; gal 1.1.
In verse 1: Saints, holy ones, believers (2 Cor 1.1; Rom 1.7; Phil 1.1; Eph 1.1).
Comments or Questions..
Monday, June 8, 2020
Reading for June 16th
Read 2 Samuel 24.10-25
In verses 10-14: David is given a choice of three punishments.
He chooses the hand of the Lord, an idiom for plague, trusting in the Lord's mercy.
In verses 15-16: David's strategy works.
The plague is stopped after only one day.
The appointed time (v. 15) may be the time of the evening meal.
Evil (v. 16) is not moral evil but destruction.
Araunah is called Oran in 1 Chr 21.
A threshing floor was a flat high area where grain was separated from the chaff.
In the Bible, God often appears to people at threshing floors (Judg 6.11-12).
In verse 17: The sheep are the people of Jerusalem.
The image is of David, the king, as their shepherd.
In verses 18-25: These verses indicate that the plague was stopped after David built his altar and made his offerings rather than by the Lord's free will as in v. 16.
The site of David's altar is the location of the later altar of bunt offering of Solomon's Temple.
Fifty shekels (v. 24) was about one and a quarter pounds
Comment or Questions..
In verses 10-14: David is given a choice of three punishments.
He chooses the hand of the Lord, an idiom for plague, trusting in the Lord's mercy.
In verses 15-16: David's strategy works.
The plague is stopped after only one day.
The appointed time (v. 15) may be the time of the evening meal.
Evil (v. 16) is not moral evil but destruction.
Araunah is called Oran in 1 Chr 21.
A threshing floor was a flat high area where grain was separated from the chaff.
In the Bible, God often appears to people at threshing floors (Judg 6.11-12).
In verse 17: The sheep are the people of Jerusalem.
The image is of David, the king, as their shepherd.
In verses 18-25: These verses indicate that the plague was stopped after David built his altar and made his offerings rather than by the Lord's free will as in v. 16.
The site of David's altar is the location of the later altar of bunt offering of Solomon's Temple.
Fifty shekels (v. 24) was about one and a quarter pounds
Comment or Questions..
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