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As therefore ye received (hōs oun parelabete). Second aorist active indicative of paralambanō in same sense as in 1Th 4:1; Phi 4:9 (both manthanō and paralambanō) that is like manthanō, to learn (Col 1:7), from Epaphras and others.
Christ Jesus the Lord (ton Christon Iēsoun ton Kurion). This peculiar phrase occurs nowhere else by Paul. We have often ho Christos (the Christ or Messiah) as in Phi 1:15, Iēsous Christos (Jesus Christ), Christos Iēsous (Christ Jesus), ho Kurios Iēsous (the Lord Jesus, very often), but nowhere else ho Christos Iēsous and Iēsous ho Kurios. Hence it is plain that Paul here meets the two forms of Gnostic heresy about the Person of Christ (the recognition of the historical Jesus in his actual humanity against the Docetic Gnostics, the identity of the Christ or Messiah with this historical Jesus against the Cerinthian Gnostics, and the acknowledgment of him as Lord). “As therefore ye received the Christ (the Messiah), Jesus the Lord.” Ye were taught right.
Walk in him (en autōi peripateite). “Go on walking in him” (present active indicative of peripateō). Stick to your first lessons in Christ.