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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Colossians 2:5 - 2:5
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For - argument against their suffering themselves to be beguiled, drawn from a regard to his personal authority as though he were present.
joying and beholding - beholding with joy.
order - your good order; answering to “knit together” (Col 2:2) as a well-organized body; the same Greek as that for knit together, is used of the body” of the Church compacted,” in Eph 4:16. Compare 1Co 14:33, 1Co 14:40.
steadfastness - Greek, “the firm (or ‘solid’) foundation.” As “order” expresses the outward aspect of the Church; so “steadfastness” expresses the inner basis on which their Church rested. The Greek literally implies not an abstract quality, but the thing in the concrete; thus their “faith” here is the solid thing which constituted the basis of their Church.