The Epistle to the Colossians is a Pauline epistle and the twelfth book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was written, according to the text, by Paul the Apostle and Timothy, and address
Text from Romans and Philippians, continuing on to Colossians 1:1–2 on Papyrus 46 (c. AD 200)
The first page of Colossians in Minuscule 321 gives its title as προς κολασσαείς, "to the Colossians". British Library, London.
The last page of Colossians in the Codex Claromontanus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ruined building in Colossae
The Epistle to the Ephesians is a Pauline epistle and the tenth book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It stands among the canonical writings that shaped early Christian identity and is tra
Epistle to the Colossians
…could have been written at Rome during his first imprisonment. Paul would likely have composed it at roughly the same time that he wrote Philemon and Ephesians, as all three letters were sent with Tychicus and Onesimus. A date of 62 AD assumes that the imprisonment Paul speaks of is his Roman imprisonment that…
Ephesians 6:8–18 on Papyrus 46 (fol. 157 verso; c. AD 200)
Papyrus 49, a 3rd-century manuscript of the Epistle to the Ephesians
German inscription of the text, "One Lord, One faith, One baptism," (Ephesians 4:5).
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