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Col 2:9. Ὃτι) for, since. The reason is hereby given, why those alone should be attended to, who teach according to Christ.-ἐν αὐτῷ, in Him) Joh 14:10.-κατοικεῖ, dwells) ch. Col 1:19, note.-πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος, all the fulness of the Godhead) Believers are filled with [rather into, εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα, so as to enter into a living participation of] all the fulness of God; Eph 3:19. But all the fulness of the Godhead, i.e. the Godhead in its greatest fulness, dwells in Christ; not merely the Divine attributes, but the Divine nature itself; ch. Col 1:19. The abstract word is most significant.[7]-σωματικῶς, bodily) God is the head of Christ, 1Co 11:3, and Christ is the head of all, Col 2:10; and Christ is related to God, as His body, the Church, is to Christ; but Christ could not with propriety be called the body of God. Therefore the language is varied. The Godhead itself, as it were the very entire substance (essence) of the Godhead, dwells in Christ, in a manner most immediate (vividly present) and most real. The type was God’s glory dwelling in the temple of Solomon. Σῶμα, the body, does not always denote the body properly so called; Col 2:11; Col 2:17
[7] “Of the Godhead,” in its essence not merely θειότητος, of the godlike character.-ED.