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COLOSSIANS. Suxzhrg Gxburiuiiuns mth warnings. XO XI I2 For I wish you to know how great

a struggle I havn for you, and those in Laodicea, and whoever have not scan my bodily presence; so that thelr hearts may be comsoled, united in love and all the wealth of the full conviction of reason, in comprehend- ing the secret of God, in Christ, in Whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and secret knowledge. I say this, indeed, so that no one may delude you by plausibility. For if I am absent by the body, yet with the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and seeing your discipline and the stead- fastness of your faith in Christ. Now, as you have received the Lord

jesus Christ, walk with Him, rooted and founded upon Him; n and secured in the faith which you were taught, with thankfulness increasing it. Look out, for fear any one should

mislead you by means of the philosophy of the silly triiling of human tradition ; following the guide- posts of the world, and not in accord- ance with Christ. Because in Him resides bodily every perfection of the Divinity. And you are perfected in Him, Who is the Head of every power and authority. To Whom also you were circumcised by an unmechanical circumcision, by stripping od the animal body, in the Christian circum- cision, when you were buried with Him in the baptism; by which also you were raised together, through the faith in the Divine energy which raised Him from among the dead. Eb: Qzlizhzrz ®ntmtrip¤ii¤xt from Ezgalimtt. :3 And you, having been dead in transgressions and the uncircum— cision of your sensuality, He restored to life together with Himself, having forgiven us all those transgressions;

x4 having erased the record, with the decrees which were against us, and taking it away, He nailed it to the

15 cross. Having stripped the powers and authorities, He exposed them publicly, leading them in triumph with 16 r8 Himself. Thereforelet none condemn you as to food, and as to drink, nor in respect of a festival, or new moon, or Sabbaths: which were a forecast of the future; but the substance belongs to Christ. Nor let any designedly

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trick your judgment into reverence and worship of the angels; resting upon what he sees, made vainly proud by his fieshly mind; and not ruled by the Head, from which all the body, through its joints and sinews arranged and invigorated, grows up with the Divine growth. If with Christ you died from the

rules of the Hebrew ritual, why, as though living under a ritual, are you Handle not, what absolutely parishes in the use-—in conformity with human commands and teaching? In which there is certainly a show of prudence in the repression of appetite, and meekness, and disregard of the body, yielding it no consideration by sensual gratification. 2X 23

®sl;¤rtati¤¤ in Qrartiral $¤hlines¤. lf, however, you were raised with 3 Christ, search for what is above, where Christ is seated upon the right hand of God. Think about heavenly, not earthly affairs; for you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. So when Christ ourlife is manifested, then also you will be manifested in rectification together with Him. Therefore destroy these parts of yourselves upon the earth fornication, impurity, passion, vile lust, and greed, for it is idolatry: through which theangerof Godcomes; among which you once walked when you lived with them. But now you re- ject the whole·—rage, lust, filth, vice, slander from your mouth. Do not lie to each other. Put off the old man with his practices; and put on the new, that is renewed in knowledge--·the very picture of its Creator——where no one is Greek and jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave, freeman--but Christ, the whole, and in all. Therefore put on, as chosen of

God, holy and beloved, gentle pity, kindness, quietudc, mildncss, for- bearance; supporting one another, and forgiving mutually, if any oné should have a quarrel against another; just as the Master forgave you, you should also do; but above all these love, which is a. bond of perfection, And let the peace of God preside in your bearts—·for you were called to be a united body--and be thankful. Let Christs reason live richiy in you I22O IO I! 12 16

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