Ephesians 3:1
I <1473> [I.]
prisoner <1198> [the.]
this .......... for the sake of <5127 5228> [for.]
Philippians 1:7
<2076> [it is.]
because <1223> [because.]
of you ... I have you in my heart .... in my .... in .......... of you ......... me <5216 2192 5209 1722 3165 2588 3450> [I have you in my heart. or, ye have me in your heart.]
For ...................... both <2531 5037> [as.]
in ...... in .... and in ... defense and <1722 2532 627> [and in.]
about .......... my ...... my ............... became partners ..... together with me <5228 3165 3450 4791> [partakers of my. or, partakers with me of.]
Colossians 4:3
pray <4336> [praying.]
that <2443> [that.]
a door <2374> [a door.]
The term door is used metaphorically for an entrance to any business, or occasion or opportunity of doing any thing; and consequently "a door of utterance" is an opportunity of preaching the gospel successfully. See the parallel texts.
mystery <3466> [the mystery.]
for ...................... for <4012 1223> [for.]
Colossians 4:18
Remember <3421> [Remember.]
Grace <5485> [Grace.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. Colosse was a large and populous city of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, seated on an eminence to the south of the river Meander. It is supposed to have occupied a site now covered with ruins, near the village of Konous or Khonas, and about twenty miles N. W. of Degnizlu. By whom, or at what time, the church at Colosse was founded is wholly uncertain; but it would appear from the apostle's declaration, ch. 2:1, that he was not the honoured instrument. It appears from the tenor of this epistle to have been, upon the whole, in a very flourishing state; but some difficulties having arisen among them, they sent Epaphras to Rome, where the apostle was now imprisoned, (ch. 4:3) to acquaint him with the state of their affairs. It is remarkable for a peculiar pathos and ardour, which is generally ascribed to the extraordinary divine consolations enjoyed by the apostle during his sufferings for the sake of Christ. Whoever, says Michaelis, would understand the Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians, must read them together. The one is in most places a commentary on the other; the meaning of single passages in one epistle, which, if considered alone, might be variously interpreted, being determined by the parallel passages in the other epistle.
