Section 36
115The one exception is the mention of the Colossian Christians’ “love in the Spirit,” reported by Epaphras (Col. 1:8).
116C. H. Pinnock, “The Concept of Spirit in the Epistles of Paul” (diss. Manchester, 1963), p. 105.
117Cf. F. F. Bruce, “Christ and Spirit in Paul,” BJRL 59 (1976-77), 259-85 (especially 274-76).
118As is pointed out by E. Schweizer (TDNT 9, p. 650, s. v. ψυϰή), commenting on the absence of a doctrine of the soul from Colossians and Ephesians, “the author is plainly conducting the controversy wholly in terms of christology and not anthropology”—nor yet, it may be added, pneumatology.