St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon
A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations
J. B. Lightfoot's commentary on St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, published in 1875, is one of the works that made him the leading New Testament scholar of Victorian England. Long introductions describe the churches of the Lycus valley, Colossae, Laodicea and Hierapolis, and reconstruct the Colossian heresy, with a dissertation on the Essenes and their relation to early Christianity. The Greek text of each epistle follows with notes on every verse, discussing grammar, textual variants and meaning, and shorter essays treat particular problems such as the word pleroma and the lost letter to Laodicea. The brief letter to Philemon, on the runaway slave Onesimus, receives the same care. The book is written for readers of Greek. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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