This is a theological commentary on the Greek text on the foundation oflinguistic detail is based a doctrinal exposition. The first section of theIntroduction i... » 

This is a theological commentary on the Greek text on the foundation oflinguistic detail is based a doctrinal exposition. The first section of theIntroduction is on the religious ideas of the epistles and frequent allusionis made throughout the commentary to works on New Testament theology. There arespecial notes on many of the important theological terms such as knowledgemystery pleroma as well as on linguistic points such as the use of thereflexive pronoun. But attention is devoted also to critical and introductorymatters and this is it is believed the first commentary on Colossians andPhilemon to discuss in some detail the theories of Professors E. J. Goodspeedand J. Knox. The commentary is documented with references to works in EnglishFrench and German for those who wish to follow up the study in greater detail.But the aim has been to make the exposition as far as possible selfcontainedand intelligible to a reader with no other books before him than the NewTestament in Greek and the Old Testament in English. «