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Colossae

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Co·los·sae  (k-ls)
An ancient city of central Asia Minor. It was the site of an early Christian church to which Saint Paul addressed his Epistle to the Colossians.
Co·lossian (-lshn) adj. & n.
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Noun1.Colossae - an ancient city in south western Phrygia in Asia Minor; site of an early Christian Church
Phrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor


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52) We know that Prisca and Aquila hosted house churches in Ephesus (1 Cor 16:19) and Rome (Rom 16:3-5), while Nympha hosted one in Laodicea (Col 4:15) and Philemon one in Colossae (Philemon 2).
Necessity is laid on me: the birth of mission in Paul by Krentz, Edgar / Currents in Theology and Mission
A second scenario suggests that Paul may have sent an associate or delegate to Crete to establish the early church, much as he had sent them to Epaphras and later to Tychicus in the church at Colossae (Col 1:7; 4:12).
Titus: epistle of religious revitalization by Tollefson, Kenneth D. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
When he comes to translate Paul's strictures against certain kinds of pious (and misguided) behavior in the congregation at Colossae, Luther renders their problem in Col 2:23 "self-chosen spirituality," an expression particularly pertinent for a society infected by new-age religion.
Martin Luther and the Ten Commandments in the Large Catechism by Wengert, Timothy J. / Currents in Theology and Mission
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