Colossians and Philemon

✍ Scribed by Eduard Lohse

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Epistle
to the 1:1-2
Colossians
1:3-8
1:9-11
1:12-20
1:21-23
1:24-2:5
2:6-15
2:16-23
3:1-4
3:5-17
3:18-4:1
4:2-6
4:7-18
Foreword to Hermeneia
Reference Codes
Editor's Note
Introduction
Introductory Greeting
Excursus: Colossae
Thanksgiving
Intercession
I.
Theological Instruction:
The Universal Lordship of Christ
Thanksgiving and Hymn
Excursus: The Christ-hymn, 1: 1~20
Assurance of the Reconciliation
and Its Demand
Office and Commission of the
Apostle
Excursus: The Language and Style
of Colossians
Christ jesus the Lord
Excursus: "The Elements of the
Universe"
The End of the Regulations
Excursus: The Teaching of the
"Philosophy"
II.
The Hortatory Section:
The Rule of Christ in the Life
of the Believers
Seek What Is Above!
Put on the New Man!
Rules for the Household
Excursus: The Rules for the
Household
Final Admonitions
Excursus: The Imprisonment of Paul
Messages and Greetings
Excursus: The Lists of Greetings
in Philemon and Colossians
Excursus: The Letter to the
Colossians and Pauline Theology
1-3
4-7
8-20
21-25
Introduction
Introductory Greeting
Thanksgiving and Petition
Intercession for Onesimus
Conclusion and Greetings
186
189
192
196
206
Bibliography 210
Indices
1. Passages
a/ Old Testament and Apocrypha 221
b/ Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
and Other Jewish Literature 221
c/ New Testament 222
d/ Early Christian Literature
and the Ancient Church 223
e/ Greek and Latin Authors 224
2. Greek Words 226
3. Subjects 228
4. Modern Authors 230
Designer's Notes 232
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