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     * by.
     # 1Co 16:21; 2Th 3:17|
     * Remember.
     # 2Ti 1:8; Heb 13:3|
     * Grace.
     # Ro 16:20,24; 2Co 13:14; 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 4:22; Heb 13:25|

           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.