Whatever false philosophy was having its way with some in the church there, it apparently had its own persuasive force. Paul’s word here, translated “plausible arguments” (pithanologia), is used only here in the New Testament and is a word used by Plato to indicate persuasive, as over against logically demonstrative, arguments. In other words, as we have already seen with Paul’s relationship to the Corinthian church, this church in Colossae apparently was being duped by the persuasive speech of false teachers. Paul’s solution for them is as profound as it is simple, and it is a solution that
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