Colossians and Philemon. Michael F. Bird

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same fate. Laodicea was rebuilt using funds from within the city, but we do not know what happened to Colossae or if it survived the earthquake or not.10 There is no evidence of habitation in Colossae after 63–64 CE until coins reappear in the late second century.11

      Relationship of Colossians to Ephesians

EphesiansColossiansSection
1:1–21:1–2authors and addressees
1:22–231:17–19headship of the Messiah
2:13–181:20–22reconciliation through the cross
4:162:19unity in the body
5:19–203:16Christian worship
5:22–6:93:18–4:1household code
6:19–204:3Paul’s evangelism activities
6:21–224:7–8Tychicus’s commendation

      Authorship

      (1) We do not have a pure “control” sample of Paul’s own writings that we can be absolutely sure are exclusively his own wording/writing and thus make use of it as a template for comparison with Colossians. Apart from the fact of textual variations in the manuscript tradition itself, we have to admit that even the undisputed letters of Paul may be the result of an amanuensis or secretary and are not necessarily from Paul’s own hand. So comparing the style and language of Romans and Colossians may not in actual fact be comparing an authentic and pseudonymous piece of writing, but amount to comparing Tertius (Rom 16:22) and Timothy (Col 1:1) as Paul’s secretary and coauthor in two different letters. We would do well also to consider the observation of Matthew Brook O’Donnell about the limits of statistical analysis:


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