This week our Sunday school class will be launching into a six week study of Colossians. In preparation for that class I suggested that everyone read the book several times before Sunday. I just finished reading it through for the first time. I chose to do that in a version of the New Testament that I do not normally read for this type of exercise. I was reminded again of how familiarity with a passage can lead one to overlook significant things in the text.
Colossians 2:9 – 10 is a passage to which I direct men when we are meeting. It is a key text on the believer’s position in Christ. Reading through Colossians as a whole this time I found that concept, fullness, completeness six other times in the book (Colossians 1:9; 1:24; 1:25; 2:2; 2:10; 4:12; 4:17). Several of the references are plays on words that seem to hearken back to the key passage 2:9 – 10.
I have read and studied this book more times than I can count. But here, just by changing the version I read I saw things that I had not picked up the other times. This Book continually amazes me. It is a source of infinite wonder.
Colossians 2:9 – 10 is a passage to which I direct men when we are meeting. It is a key text on the believer’s position in Christ. Reading through Colossians as a whole this time I found that concept, fullness, completeness six other times in the book (Colossians 1:9; 1:24; 1:25; 2:2; 2:10; 4:12; 4:17). Several of the references are plays on words that seem to hearken back to the key passage 2:9 – 10.
I have read and studied this book more times than I can count. But here, just by changing the version I read I saw things that I had not picked up the other times. This Book continually amazes me. It is a source of infinite wonder.
Mike,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your faithful posting and leading. It is a joy to see your post in my email each day!
Steve Curley
Thanks Steve.
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