Colossians, Philemon, and Ephesians (NICNT)
F. F. Bruce
Bible Study
Chapters 343
- Printed in the United States of America ≈ 1 min
- CONTENTS ≈ 1 min
- Editor’s Preface ≈ 2 min
- Author’s Preface ≈ 4 min
- Select Bibliography ≈ 22 min
- VI. SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS ≈ 82 min
- ANALYSIS OF COLOSSIANS ≈ 3 min
- COLOSSIANS 2 ≈ 141 min
- COLOSSIANS 4 ≈ 207 min
- IV. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LETTER ≈ 34 min
- PHILEMON: TEXT, EXPOSITION, AND NOTES ≈ 50 min
- V. NATURE AND PURPOSE OF EPHESIANS ≈ 52 min
- ANALYSIS OF EPHESIANS ≈ 3 min
- EPHESIANS 3 ≈ 210 min
- EPHESIANS 6 ≈ 219 min
- Subjects ≈ 6 min
- Authors ≈ 10 min
- Scripture References ≈ 36 min
- 5 Herodotus, History 7.30. ≈ 1 min
- 12 Pliny, Nat. Hist. 5.105. ≈ 1 min
- 23 Herodotus, History 7.31. ≈ 1 min
- 25 Strabo, Geography 12.578. ≈ 1 min
- 31 Josephus, Ant. 12.149. ≈ 1 min
- 36 Cicero, Pro Flacco. Flaccus appears to have been acquitted. ≈ 1 min
- 39 Philo, Legation to Gaius 155-57. ≈ 1 min
- 48 CIJ 760; MAMA VI, §§ 335, 335a (p. 116). ≈ 1 min
- 60 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.19. ≈ 1 min
- Section 28 ≈ 1 min
- 69 See p. 201. ≈ 2 min
- 73 Eusebius, HE 4.26.1; 4.27.1; 5.5.4; 5.16.1; 5.19.1-2. ≈ 1 min
- 84 See exposition ad loc. (pp. 121-22 with nn. 131-35). ≈ 2 min
- Section 32 ≈ 1 min
- Section 33 ≈ 2 min
- 102 Major Trends, p. 43. ≈ 2 min
- Section 35 ≈ 2 min
- Section 36 ≈ 1 min
- 121 H. Chadwick, “All Things to All Men,” p. 272. ≈ 1 min
- 123 Outstandingly in the hymn of Col. 1:15-20 (pp. 54-76). ≈ 1 min
- 131 See pp. 202, 242. ≈ 1 min
- Section 40 ≈ 1 min
- Section 41 ≈ 2 min
- 3 See Eph. 2:19, with exposition and notes (pp. 302-03). ≈ 1 min
- Section 43 ≈ 2 min
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- Section 46 ≈ 2 min
- Section 47 ≈ 2 min
- 28 Cf. Hos. 2:20; 6:3, 6. ≈ 2 min
- 36 Cf. v. 6 above (p. 42 with n. 15). ≈ 1 min
- 40 Diss. 2.6.26. ≈ 2 min
- 42 Cf. T. Erskine, Letters (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 16. ≈ 1 min
- Section 52 ≈ 2 min
- 56 Gk. ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ σϰóτους, as here. ≈ 1 min
- 60 1 Cor. 15:50. ≈ 1 min
- Section 55 ≈ 2 min
- Section 56 ≈ 1 min
- Section 57 ≈ 3 min
- 75 Gk. ὅς ἐστɩν (vv. 15a, 18b). ≈ 1 min
- Section 59 ≈ 2 min
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- Section 62 ≈ 2 min
- 102 Cf. 2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 2:6-7. ≈ 1 min
- 109 Philo, On the Making of the World 20-23. ≈ 2 min
- Section 65 ≈ 2 min
- 120 Cf. E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 72. ≈ 2 min
- 122 See above, p. 52 with n. 62. ≈ 1 min
- Section 68 ≈ 2 min
- 129 Livy, History 2.32.9-12. ≈ 2 min
- 134 Cf. Eph. 1:23; 2:16; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30. ≈ 1 min
- 139 Cf. Rom. 5:12-19; 1 Cor. 15:21-22, 45-49. ≈ 3 min
- 143 Cf. 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:22-32. ≈ 2 min
- see A. Ehrhardt, The Beginning (Manchester, 1968). ≈ 1 min
- 160 P. Benoit, “L’hymne christologique,” p. 256. ≈ 1 min
- Section 75 ≈ 3 min
- Section 76 ≈ 2 min
- 169 Origen, Commentary on John 1.35. ≈ 3 min
- Section 78 ≈ 1 min
- 176 Cf. 2 Cor. 5:18-20. ≈ 1 min
- Section 80 ≈ 2 min
- 185 A. Deissmann, Paul, E.T. (London, 1926), p. 168. ≈ 1 min
- 191 Cf. A. S. Peake, Colossians, p. 513. ≈ 2 min
- 201 Cf. Rom. 1:8-10 for a similar transition. ≈ 2 min
- Section 84 ≈ 1 min
- Section 85 ≈ 2 min
- 213 Cf. Rom. 16:25; 1 Cor. 2:7-10. ≈ 2 min
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- 13 See p. 60 above (on Col. 1:15). ≈ 1 min
- Section 94 ≈ 1 min
- 17 That is, the elders of Josh. 24:31; Judg. 2:7. ≈ 2 min
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- Section 98 ≈ 3 min
- Section 99 ≈ 2 min
- 44 Gk. παιδαγωγóς (Gal. 3:24). ≈ 1 min
- Section 101 ≈ 3 min
- 53 See pp. 63-64 above. ≈ 2 min
- 59 Cf. Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3. ≈ 2 min
- 64 Cf. Jer. 31:31-34; Ezek. 36:25-27. ≈ 2 min
- 74 Cf. E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 113. ≈ 1 min
- Section 106 ≈ 4 min
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- Section 108 ≈ 3 min
- Section 109 ≈ 6 min
- Section 110 ≈ 2 min
- Section 111 ≈ 2 min
- 108 E. Schweizer, Colossians, p. 156. ≈ 2 min
- Section 113 ≈ 2 min
- 116 E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 168. ≈ 2 min
- 118 E.g., Judg. 6:12-24. ≈ 2 min
- 128 Gk. ἐμβατεύων. ≈ 5 min
- 133 W. M. Ramsay, The Teaching of Paul, p. 300. ≈ 1 min
- Section 118 ≈ 1 min
- Section 119 ≈ 1 min
- Section 120 ≈ 2 min
- 156 Compare Paul’s argument in Gal. 3:23-4:7. ≈ 1 min
- Section 122 ≈ 2 min
- 161 Cf. Justin, Dialogue with Trypho 48, 140. ≈ 4 min
- 7 Cf. 1 Cor. 15:24-28. ≈ 1 min
- 9 Cf. Rom. 6:1-11; 1 Cor. 5:7-8, etc. ≈ 1 min
- 17 Cf. Rom. 6:6-11. ≈ 1 min
- 24 Cf. Col. 1:27. ≈ 1 min
- 30 Cf. 2 Cor. 3:18. ≈ 1 min
- Section 129 ≈ 2 min
- Section 130 ≈ 2 min
- Section 131 ≈ 2 min
- 55 Cf. Gal. 5:16. ≈ 1 min
- 57 In the Johannine literature the indicative predominates. ≈ 1 min
- 60 Gk. ποϱνεία, from πόϱνη (“harlot”). ≈ 2 min
- 69 Gk. τέϰνα ὑπαϰοῆς. ≈ 1 min
- Section 136 ≈ 3 min
- 82 Cf. 2 Cor. 3:18. ≈ 2 min
- 86 E.g., in Isa. 65:17. ≈ 2 min
- 88 Cf. Mark 13:26; 14:62; Rev. 1:7, 13. ≈ 2 min
- 104 Eusebius, HE 5.1.17-19, 37-42. ≈ 1 min
- Section 141 ≈ 2 min
- 120 Cf. Eph. 4:32; 5:1. ≈ 1 min
- 128 Gk. πϱαΰς εἰμɩ ϰαὶ ταπεɩνὸς τῇ ϰαϱδίᾳ. ≈ 1 min
- 135 Cf. Matt. 6:14-15; 18:23-35; Mark 11:25. ≈ 2 min
- 138 Cf. Gal. 5:14 (similarly quoting Lev. 19:18). ≈ 1 min
- 144 Cf. Col. 1:21-22. ≈ 1 min
- 150 Cf. Rom. 15:14 (also Heb. 5:12). ≈ 2 min
- Section 148 ≈ 3 min
- 167 Stobaeus, Anthologies 4.19, 23-26. ≈ 2 min
- Section 150 ≈ 1 min
- Section 151 ≈ 2 min
- 184 See n. 182 above. ≈ 1 min
- 194 Gk. ἐϰ ψυϰῆς, as in Eph. 6:6. ≈ 2 min
- 204 Cf. Col. 3:11 (p. 151 with n. 103). ≈ 1 min
- Section 155 ≈ 2 min
- 213 Cf. Rom. 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 3:12-17; 4:4-5. ≈ 1 min
- 4 ἐν εὐϰαϱɩστίᾳ is omitted by D* Ambst. ≈ 1 min
- 11 Cf. Col. 1:26-27 (pp. 84-86 with nn. 214-16). ≈ 1 min
- 15 Gk. δέδεμαɩ, “I am bound” (v. 3). ≈ 1 min
- 20 Cf. Matt. 5:13; Mark 9:49-50; Luke 14:34-35. ≈ 1 min
- 26 Gk. ἔπεμψα, “I have sent” (epistolary aorist). ≈ 2 min
- Section 162 ≈ 1 min
- 44 Acts 13:13; 15:36-40. ≈ 1 min
- Section 164 ≈ 3 min
- 52 See p. 52, n. 61 (on Col. 1:13). ≈ 1 min
- Section 166 ≈ 2 min
- 65 Gk. πϱοστάτɩς, the equivalent of Lat. patrona. ≈ 2 min
- 69 Cf. Tertullian, Against Marcion 5.17. ≈ 2 min
- 75 J. B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 244, 308-10. ≈ 2 min
- Section 170 ≈ 2 min
- Section 171 ≈ 1 min
- 21 See pp. 150-51, 168. ≈ 1 min
- Section 173 ≈ 1 min
- 26 C. F. D. Moule, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 16-17. ≈ 1 min
- 29 Ignatius, Eph. 20:2. ≈ 1 min
- Section 176 ≈ 1 min
- 6 Cf. Col. 4:11 (p. 181 with n. 54). ≈ 1 min
- 13 See p. 177. ≈ 2 min
- 24 Cf. Gal. 5:6, “faith (πὶστɩς) working through love (ἀγάπη).” ≈ 1 min
- 29 Gk. ἡ ϰoɩνωνὶα τῆς πίστεώς σoν. ≈ 2 min
- Section 181 ≈ 2 min
- 49 Gk. παϱϱησία (cf. Col. 2:15; Eph. 3:12; 6:19, 20). ≈ 1 min
- 54 R. Bentley conjectured πϱεσβευτής here. ≈ 1 min
- Section 184 ≈ 1 min
- Section 185 ≈ 2 min
- 72 Gk. ώς ϰατ’ ἀνάγϰην. ≈ 1 min
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- Section 190 ≈ 2 min
- 93 See p. 201. ≈ 1 min
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- Section 193 ≈ 1 min
- 105 Cf. Col. 1:7; 4:12. ≈ 1 min
- 4 M. Barth, The Broken Wall (London, 1960), p. 9. ≈ 1 min
- 8 The Meaning of Ephesians, p. 8. ≈ 1 min
- Section 197 ≈ 1 min
- 20 H. Schlier, Der Brief an die Epheser (Düsseldorf, 1957). ≈ 1 min
- Section 199 ≈ 1 min
- 25 Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3. ≈ 1 min
- 34 See p. 236 above, with nn. 19, 20. ≈ 1 min
- 42 E. J. Goodspeed, The Key to Ephesians, pp. 14-15. ≈ 1 min
- 51 Ephesians, Baptism and Pentecost, pp. 144-45 (cf. 1QS 1.16-3.12). ≈ 1 min
- 53 See pp. 340-45. ≈ 1 min
- Section 205 ≈ 1 min
- 3 Gk. τοῖς οὖσιν (P 46 D omit τοῖς). ≈ 1 min
- 8 See pp. 38-39. ≈ 2 min
- 11 Cf. Col. 1:4 (p. 41 with n. 12). ≈ 1 min
- Section 209 ≈ 1 min
- 26 Cf. οἱ ἐπουϱάνιοι in 1 Cor. 15:48. ≈ 2 min
- Section 211 ≈ 2 min
- 33 Cf. Lev. 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7-8, 26. ≈ 1 min
- 36 Cf. Col. 1:18, πϱωτότοϰος ἐϰ τѽν νεϰѽν. ≈ 1 min
- 44 Dante, Paradise 33.145. ≈ 1 min
- 49 See p. 52, n. 59. ≈ 2 min
- 55 For ἐν αὐτῷ P reads ἐν ἑαυτῷ (“in himself”). ≈ 2 min
- Section 217 ≈ 1 min
- 75 Gk. εἰς οἰϰονομίαν τοῦ πληϱώματος τѽν ϰαιϱѽν. ≈ 1 min
- 84 Gk . ἐϰληϱώθημεν. ≈ 1 min
- 95 Gk. τῷ πνεύματι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας τῷ ἁγίῳ. ≈ 1 min
- 99 Gk. ἀπαϱϰή. ≈ 1 min
- 106 Gk. τὴν ἐϰϰλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἧν πεϱιεποιήσατο. ≈ 1 min
- 118 See n. 110 above. ≈ 2 min
- 131 Cf. Phil. 2:9-11. ≈ 1 min
- 140 Gk. ϰεφαλὴν ὑπὲϱ πάντα, lit., “head over all things.” ≈ 1 min
- 144 Eph. 1:3 (see pp. 253-54, nn. 25-27). ≈ 1 min
- 151 Ps. 8:7 LXX (see n. 139 above). ≈ 2 min
- 163 Gk. ϰαὶ αὐτòν ἔδωϰεν ϰεφαλὴν ϰτλ. ≈ 1 min
- Section 229 ≈ 1 min
- 3 αὐτοῦ om P46 D* FG. ≈ 1 min
- 9 Gk. ϰαί ὑμᾶς (ἤγειϱεν). ≈ 1 min
- Section 232 ≈ 2 min
- 23 Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander 30.6; Epiphanius, Pan. 51.22. ≈ 1 min
- 30 Gk. υἱοὶ τῆς ἀπιεθεíας. ≈ 1 min
- Section 235 ≈ 2 min
- 42 Heb. ben māweṯ (LXX υίòς θανάτου). ≈ 1 min
- 50 Gk. ἐν τοĩς ἐπουϱανϱοις, as in Eph. 1:20, etc. ≈ 2 min
- 56 Eph. 1:9–10 (p. 261). ≈ 1 min
- 69 C. Hodge, Ephesians, pp. 119–20. ≈ 1 min
- 71 J. Calvin, Ephesians, p. 144. ≈ 1 min
- 79 Cf. Matt. 5:45, 48. ≈ 2 min
- Section 242 ≈ 2 min
- 91 Cf. Gal. 5:6; 1 Cor. 7:19. ≈ 1 min
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- 122 J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, p. 161. ≈ 2 min
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- 136 For τοῦ θεοῦ B erratically has τοῦ Xϱιστοῦ. ≈ 1 min
- Section 253 ≈ 1 min
- 140 See p. 315, n. 29. ≈ 3 min
- 144 It is called pinnaṯ yiqraṯ , “a precious corner(stone).” ≈ 1 min
- 152 Heb. le ō’š pinnāh (LXX εỉς ϰεφαλὴν γωνίας). ≈ 3 min
- 159 Deut. 12:5; 1 Kings (LXX 3 Kingdoms) 8:29, etc. ≈ 1 min
- Section 258 ≈ 1 min
- Section 259 ≈ 1 min
- 23 See pp. 84-86. ≈ 1 min
- 26 Gk. τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀποστóλοις αὐτοῦ ϰαὶ πϱοφήταις. ≈ 1 min
- 37 Gk. ϰατά τὴν δωϱεὰν τῆῦ ϰάϱιτος τοῦ θεοῦ. ≈ 1 min
- 48 Translating παϱϱησίαν ϰαὶ πϱοσαγωγήν is a hendiadys. ≈ 2 min
- 54 See p. 317, n. 38. ≈ 1 min
- 61 2 Cor. 5:18-19. ≈ 1 min
- Section 266 ≈ 1 min
- 69 See p. 261. ≈ 1 min
- Section 268 ≈ 1 min
- Section 269 ≈ 3 min
- 83 See p. 270. ≈ 2 min
- 89 Cf. Gal. 2:20, ζῄ δὲ ἐν ἐμοί Xϱιστóζ. ≈ 1 min
- 98 1 Cor. 2:7 (see p. 321 with n. 67). ≈ 1 min
- 106 See pp. 100-101. ≈ 1 min
- 111 Cf. the Hallelujah psalms (Pss. 146-150, etc.). ≈ 2 min
- 115 On the responsive ἀμήν see 1 Cor. 14:16. ≈ 1 min
- Section 276 ≈ 2 min
- 15 Cf. 1 Cor. 12:27. ≈ 1 min
- Section 278 ≈ 2 min
- Section 279 ≈ 1 min
- 27 ἔδωϰεν (aorist), for which P 46 reads δέδωϰεν (perfect). ≈ 2 min
- 37 See p. 317 with n. 38. ≈ 1 min
- 47 Calvin, Ephesians, p. 174. ≈ 2 min
- Section 283 ≈ 1 min
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- Section 285 ≈ 2 min
- Section 286 ≈ 1 min
- 63 See pp. 303-06 with n. 141. ≈ 2 min
- Section 288 ≈ 2 min
- 73 Gk. διδαϰτιϰóς. ≈ 1 min
- 79 Cf. Hippolytus, Ref. 5.8.10. See p. 299, nn. 125-26. ≈ 2 min
- Section 291 ≈ 2 min
- Section 292 ≈ 1 min
- 96 ἡ γἀϱ ἀγάπη τοῦ Xϱɩστοῦ συνέϰεɩ ἡμᾶς. ≈ 2 min
- Section 294 ≈ 2 min
- 113 Gk. ϰεϰαυστηϱɩασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησɩν. ≈ 1 min
- 117 See p. 143, nn. 62, 63. ≈ 1 min
- Section 297 ≈ 2 min
- 129 δɩó om P 46 al . ≈ 1 min
- 134 LXX λαλεῖτε ἀλήθεɩαν ἓϰαστος πϱòς τòν πλησίον αὐτοῦ. ≈ 1 min
- 137 Cf. Col. 3:8; Eph. 4:31. ≈ 2 min
- Section 301 ≈ 1 min
- 149 Pseudo-Cyprian, De Aleatoribus (On Gamblers) 3. ≈ 1 min
- 152 See p. 266. ≈ 1 min
- 164 See p. 259. ≈ 1 min
- Section 305 ≈ 2 min
- Section 306 ≈ 2 min
- 18 Gk. αἰσϰϱóτης, with which cf. αἰσϰϱολογία in Col. 3:8. ≈ 1 min
- Section 308 ≈ 2 min
- 27 Gk. συμμέτοϰοɩ. ≈ 1 min
- 39 H. Schlier, Der Brief an die Epheser, p. 239. ≈ 1 min
- 42 δɩò λέγεɩ. ≈ 1 min
- 44 Firmicus Maternus, On the Error of Profane Religions 18.1: ≈ 1 min
- 45 Clement, Protrepticus 9.84.2: ≈ 2 min
- 56 ἀσωτία (ἀσώτως in Luke 15:13). ≈ 1 min
- 63 See p. 160 with nn. 159-61. ≈ 1 min
- 66 On household codes see pp. 160-63. ≈ 1 min
- Section 317 ≈ 2 min
- Section 318 ≈ 2 min
- 85 αὐτὸς σωτὴϱ τοῡ σώματος (see n. 69 above). ≈ 1 min
- 93 Cf. also Gal. 2:20 (see p. 368 above). ≈ 2 min
- Section 321 ≈ 1 min
- Section 322 ≈ 2 min
- 105 Westminster Shorter Catechism, answer to Q. 94. ≈ 1 min
- 116 See p. 255. ≈ 2 min
- Section 325 ≈ 1 min
- 124 See Eph. 2:3 (pp. 283-84). ≈ 1 min
- Section 327 ≈ 1 min
- 134 Cf. W. Munro, Authorityin Paul and Peter, p. 34. ≈ 1 min
- 142 “And the Two,” p. 100, n. 2. ≈ 1 min
- 2 ᾔτɩς ἐστίν (B omits ἐστίν). ≈ 1 min
- 6 ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ, with comitative ἐν. ≈ 1 min
- 12 πϱòς παɩδείαν τὴν ἐν . ≈ 1 min
- 19 Cf. Col. 3:22, φοβούμενοɩ τòν ϰύϱɩον. ≈ 1 min
- 27 J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, p. 211. ≈ 1 min
- 35 ἐνδυναμοῦσθε (δυναμοῦσθε P46 B33). ≈ 3 min
- 41 δέξασθε (om D* FG lat bm* ). ≈ 1 min
- 54 See p. 98, n. 40 (on Col. 2:8). ≈ 1 min
- 57 Gk. τά πνευματιϰά τῆς πονηϱίας. ≈ 1 min
- 68 J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, p. 215. ≈ 1 min
- 84 πϱοσευχóμενοɩ. ≈ 1 min
- 91 Cf. Mark 13:33, βλϱπετε, ἀγϱυπνεῖτε. ≈ 1 min
- 95 ὼζ δεῖ με λαλῆσαɩ, as in Col. 4:4. ≈ 1 min
- 102 For ἀδελφοῖζ P 46 reads ἁγίοɩζ. ≈ 1 min
| Author | F. F. Bruce |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1900s |
| Categories | Bible Study |
| Length | 343 chapters · ≈ 26 h 7 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · EPUB |







