Phili 1:13-16, Col 1:24, 4:3, 18, 2Ti 1:8, 16, 2:9, Phile 1, 9, Rev 2:10 | TSK | STEP | in Christ. or, for Christ. the palace. or, Caesar's court. in all other places. or, to all others.

a door.The term door is used metaphorically for an entrance to any business, or occasion or opportunity of doing any thing; and consequently "a door of utterance" is an opportunity of preaching the gospel successfully. See the parallel texts.

the mystery.

1:26; 2:2,3; Mt 13:11; 1Co 4:1; Eph 6:19

for.

Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; Php 1:7,13,14; 2Ti 1:16; 2:9

Colossians 4:18

by.

1Co 16:21; 2Th 3:17

Remember.

2Ti 1:8; Heb 13:3

Grace.

Ro 16:20,24; 2Co 13:14; 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 4:22; Heb 13:25 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. Colosse was a large and populous city of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, seated on an eminence to the south of the river Meander. It is supposed to have occupied a site now covered with ruins, near the village of Konous or Khonas, and about twenty miles N. W. of Degnizlu. By whom, or at what time, the church at Colosse was founded is wholly uncertain; but it would appear from the apostle's declaration, ch. 2:1, that he was not the honoured instrument. It appears from the tenor of this epistle to have been, upon the whole, in a very flourishing state; but some difficulties having arisen among them, they sent Epaphras to Rome, where the apostle was now imprisoned, (ch. 4:3) to acquaint him with the state of their affairs. It is remarkable for a peculiar pathos and ardour, which is generally ascribed to the extraordinary divine consolations enjoyed by the apostle during his sufferings for the sake of Christ. Whoever, says Michaelis, would understand the Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians, must read them together. The one is in most places a commentary on the other; the meaning of single passages in one epistle, which, if considered alone, might be variously interpreted, being determined by the parallel passages in the other epistle.

2 Timothy 1:8

ashamed.

12; Ps 119:46; Isa 51:7; Mr 8:38; Lu 9:26; Ac 5:41; Ro 1:16; 9:33

Eph 3:13; 1Pe 4:14

the testimony.

Ps 19:7; Isa 8:20; Joh 15:27; 19:35; Eph 4:17; 1Ti 2:6; 1Jo 4:14

1Jo 5:11,12; Re 1:2; 12:11; 19:10

his prisoner.

16; 2:9; Eph 3:1; 4:1; Php 1:7

be thou.

2:3,11,12; 4:5; Ro 8:17,18,36; 1Co 4:9-13; 2Co 11:23-27; Php 3:10

Col 1:24; 1Th 3:4; 1Pe 4:13-15; Re 1:9; 12:11

according.

4:17; Ro 16:25; 2Co 6:7; 12:9,10; Php 4:13; Col 1:11; 1Pe 1:5

Jude 1:24

2 Timothy 1:16

Lord.

18; Ne 5:19; 13:14,22,31; Ps 18:25; 37:26; Mt 5:7; 10:41,42

Mt 25:35-40; 2Co 9:12-14; Heb 6:10; 10:34

the house.

4:19

refreshed.

1Co 16:18; Phm 1:7,20

and was.

my.

Ac 28:20; Eph 6:20; *marg:

2 Timothy 2:9

I suffer.

1:8,12,16; Ac 9:16

as.

Eph 6:20; 1Pe 2:12,14; 3:16; 4:15

even.

Ac 28:31; Eph 6:19,20; Php 1:12-14; 2Th 3:1

but.

Eph 3:1; Php 1:7; Col 4:3,18

Philemon 1

1 Paul rejoices to hear of the faith and love of Philemon, whom he desires to forgive his servant Onesimus, and lovingly to receive him again.

A. D. 64. A. M. 4068.

a prisoner.

9; Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; 2Ti 1:8

Timothy.

2Co 1:1; Col 1:1; 2Th 1:1

Philemon.The apostle in this epistle indulges in some fine paronomasais on the proper names. Thus Philemon, [Philemon ,] affectionate, or beloved, is "our dearly beloved;" Apphia, ([Apphia from appha,] the affectionate address of a brother or sister, according to Suidas,) is "the beloved sister," as several MSS., Vulgate, and others correctly read; Archippus, ([Archippos ,] the ruler of the horse, for the managing of which heros were anciently famous,) is "our fellow- soldier;" and Onesimus, ([Onesimos ,] useful or profitable,) once unprofitable, is now profitable.

and fellow labourer.

24; 1Co 3:9; Php 2:25; 4:3; Col 4:11; 1Th 3:2