Colossians · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Colossians 2 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Διότι θέλω να εξεύρητε οποίον μέγαν αγώνα έχω διά σας και τους εν Λαοδικεία και τους όσοι δεν είδον το πρόσωπόν μου σωματικώς,
1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 διά να παρηγορηθώσιν αι καρδίαι αυτών, ενωθέντων ομού εν αγάπη και εις πάντα πλούτον της πληροφορίας της συνέσεως, ώστε να γνωρίσωσι το μυστήριον του Θεού και Πατρός και του Χριστού,
2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
3 εν τω οποίω είναι κεκρυμμένοι πάντες οι θησαυροί της σοφίας και της γνώσεως.
3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
4 Λέγω δε τούτο, διά να μη σας εξαπατά τις με πιθανολογίαν·
4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
5 διότι αν και κατά το σώμα ήμαι απών, με το πνεύμα όμως είμαι μεθ' υμών, χαίρων και βλέπων την τάξιν σας και την σταθερότητα της εις Χριστόν πίστεώς σας.
5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 Καθώς λοιπόν παρελάβετε τον Χριστόν Ιησούν τον Κύριον, εν αυτώ περιπατείτε,
6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
7 ερριζωμένοι και εποικοδομούμενοι εν αυτώ και στερεούμενοι εν τη πίστει καθώς εδιδάχθητε, περισσεύοντες εν αυτή μετά ευχαριστίας.
7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8 Βλέπετε μη σας εξαπατήση τις διά της φιλοσοφίας και της ματαίας απάτης, κατά την παράδοσιν των ανθρώπων, κατά τα στοιχεία του κόσμου και ουχί κατά Χριστόν·
8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.
9 διότι εν αυτώ κατοικεί παν το πλήρωμα της θεότητος σωματικώς,
9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
10 και είσθε πλήρεις εν αυτώ, όστις είναι η κεφαλή πάσης αρχής και εξουσίας,
10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
11 εις τον οποίον και περιετμήθητε με περιτομήν αχειροποίητον, απεκδυθέντες το σώμα των αμαρτιών της σαρκός διά της περιτομής του Χριστού,
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
12 συνταφέντες μετ' αυτού εν τω βαπτίσματι, διά του οποίου και συνανέστητε διά της πίστεως της ενεργείας του Θεού, όστις ανέστησεν αυτόν εκ των νεκρών.
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 Και εσάς, όντας νεκρούς εις τα αμαρτήματα και την ακροβυστίαν της σαρκός σας, συνεζωοποίησε μετ' αυτού, συγχωρήσας εις εσάς πάντα τα πταίσματα,
13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 εξαλείψας το καθ' ημών χειρόγραφον, συνιστάμενον εις διατάγματα, το οποίον ήτο εναντίον εις ημάς, και αφήρεσεν αυτό εκ του μέσου, προσηλώσας αυτό επί του σταυρού·
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
15 και απογυμνώσας τας αρχάς και τας εξουσίας, παρεδειγμάτισε παρρησία, θριαμβεύσας κατ' αυτών επ' αυτού.
15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Ας μη σας κρίνη λοιπόν μηδείς διά φαγητόν ή διά ποτόν ή διά λόγον εορτής ή νεομηνίας ή σαββάτων,
16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
17 τα οποία είναι σκιά των μελλόντων, το σώμα όμως είναι του Χριστού.
17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
18 Ας μη σας στερήση μηδείς του βραβείου με προσποίησιν ταπεινοφροσύνης και με θρησκείαν των αγγέλων, εμβατεύων εις πράγματα τα οποία δεν είδε, ματαίως φυσιούμενος υπό του νοός της σαρκός αυτού,
18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 και μη κρατών την κεφαλήν, τον Χριστόν, εκ του οποίου όλον το σώμα διά των αρμών και συνδέσμων διατηρούμενον και συνδεόμενον αυξάνει κατά την αύξησιν του Θεού.
19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
20 Εάν λοιπόν απεθάνετε μετά του Χριστού από των στοιχείων του κόσμου, διά τι ως ζώντες εν τω κόσμω υπόκεισθε εις διατάγματα,
20 If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
21 Μη πιάσης, μη γευθής, μη εγγίσης,
21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
22 τα οποία πάντα φθείρονται διά της χρήσεως, κατά τα εντάλματα και τας διδασκαλίας των ανθρώπων;
22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
23 τα οποία έχουσι φαινόμενον μόνον σοφίας εις εθελοθρησκείαν και ταπεινοφροσύνην και σκληραγωγίαν του σώματος, εις ουδεμίαν τιμήν έχοντα την ευχαρίστησιν της σαρκός.
23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Colossians 1:29; Philippians 1:30; Revelation 3:14–22; Colossians 4:12–13; Revelation 1:11
- 2 Colossians 1:27; Colossians 4:8; Romans 16:25; Colossians 3:14; Ephesians 6:22
- 3 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:6–8; 2 Timothy 3:15–17
- 4 1 John 4:1; Ephesians 4:14; Romans 16:18–19; Matthew 24:4; 2 John 7
- 5 1 Corinthians 5:3–4; 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 2 Peter 3:17–18; 1 Peter 5:9
- 6 Colossians 1:10; 1 John 2:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Ephesians 5:1–2; Galatians 2:20
- 7 Ephesians 3:17; Jeremiah 17:8; Ephesians 2:20–22; John 15:4–5; Colossians 1:23
- 8 1 Timothy 6:20; Ephesians 5:6; Matthew 7:15; Galatians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 3:18–19
- 9 Colossians 1:19; John 1:14; John 10:30; 1 Timothy 3:16; John 14:9–10
- 10 Ephesians 3:19; Colossians 1:16–18; 1 Corinthians 1:30–31; 1 Peter 3:22; Ephesians 1:20–23
- 11 Romans 2:29; Philippians 3:3; Romans 6:6; Deuteronomy 30:6; Galatians 5:24
- 12 Romans 6:3–5; Galatians 3:27; 1 Peter 3:21; Ephesians 2:4–6; Colossians 3:1–2
- 13 Ephesians 2:5–6; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 2:1; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Hebrews 9:14
- 14 Ephesians 2:14–16; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 43:25; Hebrews 8:13; 1 Peter 2:24
- 15 Hebrews 2:14; Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 12:29; John 12:31–32; Isaiah 53:12
- 16 Romans 14:5–6; Romans 14:10; Galatians 4:10; Romans 14:13–17; Romans 14:2–3
- 17 Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 8:5; John 1:17; Hebrews 9:9; Hebrews 4:1–11
- 18 Colossians 2:8; 1 John 4:1–2; Colossians 2:23; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 1:7
- 19 Ephesians 4:15–16; John 15:4–6; 1 Timothy 2:4–6; Romans 12:4–5; 1 Peter 3:8
- 20 Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:14; Colossians 2:16; Galatians 4:3; Romans 7:4–6
- 21 1 Timothy 4:3; Isaiah 52:11; Genesis 3:3; 2 Corinthians 6:17
- 22 Isaiah 29:13; Titus 1:14; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Mark 7:18–19; Mark 7:7–13
- 23 1 Timothy 4:8; Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:22; Colossians 2:18; Matthew 23:27–28
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Again, he takes hold on them beforehand with their own testimony, saying, "As therefore ye received." We introduce no strange addition, he saith, neither do ye. "Walk ye in Him," for He is the Way that leadeth to the Father: not in the Angels; this way leadeth not thither.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, "And He Himself is all things;" and again, "All things are to Him, and of Him are all things;" and further, "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead;" and yet again, "All things are gathered together by God in Christ." Thus do they interpret these …
… Thy Spirit, by Thy good and pious servant: "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." And since at that time (as Thou, O Light of my heart, knowest) the words …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For not otherwise than by the cross did He effect this; as Paul likewise said: "And the handwriting which was contrary to us, even it He took out of the way, nailing it to His cross." And his saying too, "He shall baptize you with the Spirit," is that of one who was foretelling the events after the resurrection.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
A most precious possession therefore is the knowledge of doctrines: also there is need of a wakeful soul, since there are many that make spoil through philosophy and vain deceit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)