133 W. M. Ramsay, The Teaching of Paul, p. 300.
131Dibelius, An die Kolosser (Tübingen, 1912), ad loc.; W. M. Ramsay, “Ancient Mysteries and their Relation to St. Paul,” Athenaeum, January 25, 1913, pp. 106-07; The Teaching of Paul in Terms of the Present Day (London, 1913), pp. 286-304.
132See the account given by M. Dibelius, “The Isis Initiation in Apuleius,” pp. 83-88; on pp. 85-86 he cites six Claros inscriptions containing ἐμβατεύω or related terms from T. Macridy’s reports: “Altertümer von Notion,” JÖAI 8 (1905), 155-73; “Antiquités de Notion, II,” JÖ AI 15 (1912), 36-67.
133W. M. Ramsay, The Teaching of Paul, p. 300.
134Similarly F. O. Francis, “Humility and Angel Worship in Col. 2:18,” in Conflict at Colossae, pp. 166-67. On the other hand, A. D. Nock takes ἃ ἑόϱαϰεν as object to ἐμβατεύων, “entering at length upon the tale of what he has seen” (“The Vocabulary of the New Testament,” JBL 52 [1933], 132), “expatiating on what he has seen” (“Hellenistic Mysteries and Christian Sacraments,” Mnemosyne, series 4, 5 [1952], 200).