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i
M.D. Hooker, “Were There False Teachers in Colossae?” in Christ and Spirit in the New Testament
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), 322; Quoted in Moo 111
ii
Moo, 117.
iii
N.T. Wright, Colossians and Philemon, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1986), 70.
iv
Ibid., 70-71.
v
Curtis Vaughn, Ephesians through Philemon, The Expositors Bible Commentary, Vol. 2, ed. Frank E.
Gaebelein (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981), 182.
vi
Ibid., 182.
vii
Ibid.
viii
Peter T. O’Brien, Colossians, Philemon, Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 44, ed. Ralph P. Martin
(Waco: Word Books, 1982), 47.
ix
Wright, 74.
x
Ibid., 74.
xi
Clinton E. Arnold, “Colossians,” in The New ESV Study Bible, ed. Wayne Grudem (Wheaton: Crossway,
2008), 2294n.
xii
Moo, 134.
xiii
Arnold, 2295n.
xiv
Moo, 134.
xv
Vaughn, 186.
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