156 Compare Paul’s argument in Gal. 3:23-4:7.
154Gk. τί . . . δογματίζεσθε? Similarly the calendrical rules to which the Galatian churches were disposed to submit were part of the domain of the στοɩϰεῑα according to Gal. 4:8-10, where those forces are described as τοῑς φύσεɩ μὴ οὖσɩν θεοῑς (so-called gods that are really no gods at all).
155For this use of σάϱξ see Rom. 7:5, 14-25; 8:3-4; Gal. 3:3; Eph. 2:11; cf. E. Schweizer, TDNT 7, pp. 125-38 (s.v. σάϱξ); A. Sand, Der Begriff “Fleisch” in den paulinischen Hauptbriefen (Regensburg, 1967). See further on v. 23 below (pp. 128-29).
156Compare Paul’s argument in Gal. 3:23-4:7.
157J. Iverach, “The Epistle to the Colossians and its Christology,” ExT 25 (1913-14), 208.