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- noun Plural form of
Colossian . - proper noun biblical The twelfth book of the
New Testament of theBible , anepistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
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- noun a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the Colossians in ancient Phrygia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the Letter to the Colossians is not about Gobble Day, either.
#1692: “A Colossians Thanksgiving” by St. John Chrysostom « Maria Lectrix 2009
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And the Letter to the Colossians is not about Gobble Day, either.
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And the Letter to the Colossians is not about Gobble Day, either.
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The very resemblance of the Epistle to the Ephesians, to that to the Colossians, is against the theory; for if the former were really the one addressed to Laodicea (Col 4: 16),
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For Paul's secret to happiness: call Colossians 3: 12-17
yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005
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And nowhere upon the inspired pages of the fourth Evangelist, nor in that great Epistle to the Colossians, which is the very citadel and central fort of that doctrine in Scripture, is there more emphatically stated this truth than here, in these incidental allusions.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The Epistle to the Colossians is the overflowing, as it were, of St. Paul's mind upon the same subject.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The biblical basis for this would be texts such as Colossians 1:15-20 and Hebrews 1:3 “sustaining all things by his powerful word,” etc.
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Or, according to "Colossians" and "Philippians," all the æons are summed up in him, in whom dwells the pleroma, or "fulness of God."
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"Colossians" and "Philippians," in which this materialistic doctrine seems to have had no assignable place.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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