Colossians
The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, usually referred to
simply as Colossians, is the 12th book of the New Testament.
It was written, (according to the text), by Paul the Apostle
to the Church in Colossae, a small Phrygian city near Laodicea
and approximately 100 miles from Ephesus in Asia Minor.[1].
During the first generation after Jesus, ...
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EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS: written by Paul during his first
captivity at Rome (Acts 28:16), in that part of it when as
yet it had not become so severe as it did when the epistle
to the Philippians (Philemon 1:20-21; Philemon 1:30) was
written (probably after the death of Burrhus, A.D. 62, to
whom Tigellinus succeeded as praetorian prefect). It...
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was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity
at Rome. Ac 28:16 (A.D. 62.) The epistle was addressed to
Christians of the city of Colosse, and was delivered to them
by Tychicus, whom the apostle had sent both to them, Col 4:7,8
and to the church of Ephesus, Eph 6:21 to inquire into their
state and to administer exhortation and...
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was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment
there
(Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57,
or, as some
think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle
to the
Ephesians. Like some of his other epistles (e.g.,
those to
Corinth), this seems to have been written in
consequence of
information which had somehow be...
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ko-losh'-ans, ko-los'-i-anz: This is one of the group of
Paul's epistles known as the Captivity Epistles (see
PHILEMON, EPISTLE TO, for a discussion of these as a group).
I. Authenticity.
1. External Evidence:
The external evidence for the Epistle to the Colossians,
prior to the middle of the 2nd century, is rather
indeterminate. In Igna...
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