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23Cf. O. Cullmann, ”Kyrios as Designation for the Oral Tradition concerning Jesus,” SJT 3 (1950), 180-97; “The Tradition,” in The Early Church, E.T. (London, 1956), pp. 55-99; R. P. C. Hanson, Tradition in the Early Church (London, 1962); F. F. Bruce, Tradition Old and New (Exeter, 1970).
24Elsewhere than in this letter, the indwelling presence is usually that of the Holy Spirit.
25For ἐϱϱιςωμένοι, “rooted,” cf. Eph. 3:17 (ἐϱϱιςωμένοι ϰαι τεθεμελιωμένοι); in both places the botanical figure is accompanied by an architectural one (here ἐποιϰοδομούμενοι).
26Gk. βεβαιούμενοι (cf. the active voice of βεβαιóω with God as the subject in 1 Cor. 1:8; 2 Cor. 1:21).
27See on Col. 1:12 (εὐϰαϱιστοṽντες), p. 49 with nn. 42, 43.