Colosse
ko-los'-e (Kolossai, "punishment"; the King James Version
Colosse): A city of Phrygia on the Lycus River, one of the
branches of the Meander, and 3 miles from Mt. Cadmus, 8,013
ft. high. It stood at the head of a gorge where the two
streams unite, and on the great highway traversing the
country from Ephesus to the Euphrates valley, 13 miles fr...
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more properly Colos'sae, was a city of Phrygia in Asia Minor,
in the upper part of the basin of the Maeander, on the Lycus.
Hierapolis and Laodicea were in its immediate neighborhood.
Col 1:2; 4:13,15,16 see Reve 1:11; 3:14.
St. Paul is supposed by some to have visited Colosse
and founded or confirmed the Colossian church on his third
mission...
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or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a
tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above
Laodicea,
and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates,
and was
consequently of some mercantile importance. It does
not appear
that Paul had visited this city when he wrote his
letter to the
church there (Col. 1:2). He ex...
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Colosse properly Colossae. A city on the Lycus, an affluent
of the Maeander. To the Christians there was addressed
Paul's epistle, before he had seen their face (Colossians
2:1; Colossians 1:4; Colossians 1:7-8). Epaphras probably
founded the Colossian church (Colossians 1:7; Colossians
4:12). Colosse was ethnologically in Phrygia, but
politi...
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To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at
Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ....
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