🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞
Colossians II:13, 14 – ‘ημιν’ – ‘emin’ - ‘us’.
Colossians II, 14 – ‘ημων’ – ‘emon’ – ‘us’.
Colossians II, 18 – ‘εμβατευων’ – ‘embateuon’ – ‘standing on, entering into, intruding upon’.
The Apostle Paul is denouncing a heresy that was beginning to spread among the Colossians. Nevertheless, he does this in general terms, which is why it is not clear what the heresy actually consisted of.
Paul says that the heresy spread an excessive belief in the powers of angels, taught them to serve them in some way, and thus exalted the creation above the Creator, Christ. Therefore, Paul here shows that Christ is higher than the angels. Earlier he testified that Christ is the Son of God, the image of the Father, the Head of the Church. It is Christ Who is at the centre of Revelation, and therefore of the preaching of the apostles and the life of the faithful.
Paul also points out one of the main reasons why this heresy arose,
and why many others arise, is because of the puffing up of the mind
,
or, simply put, because of arrogance. Many scholars and researchers
believe that this heresy was similar to later Gnosticism, perhaps one of
the first known (documented) varieties of it.
The specific verses of the reading remain unclear, to a certain extent mysterious as to what is specifically meant.
‘Principalities and authorities’ are angelic ranks, some of whose
representatives became demons. It was these demons who were put to shame
by the suffering on the cross of the Crucified Son of God, Who humbled
Himself in contrast to those demons.
Paul also speaks again of the Mosaic Law as well as of Gentile beliefs, for the Gentiles also celebrated the new moon.
That is why Paul again and again refers to Christ, in whom all the
treasures of wisdom are hidden
.
For a parallel passage in Matthew (Matthew XII,
38-42, Matthew has a more detailed account of this passage), see
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
Why it is wrong to build faith only on something extraordinary, I
have written several times before, in particular at the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
There are different opinions about how Gentiles and non-Christians
can judge the evil generation
, often thinking that they will show by
their own example that people could have shown love and did not, that
they could have shown faith and did not want to, and so on. In other
words, they will not be plaintiffs
against the evil generation
, but
witnesses
to the fact that they could have been quite different.
It is also important that the Lord will judge people by their
openness to God’s will, including the Gentiles. And in this openness, in
this search, many Gentiles can serve as an example for the evil
generation
.
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!
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