Colossians and Philemon Quotes

“The true mediator must be both human and divine.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“The apostolic doctrine of the Logos teaches us to regard the eternal Word as having the same relation to the universe which the incarnate Christ holds to the church. He is the source of its life, the center of all its developments, the mainspring of all its motions.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“It is the very compression of the thoughts which creates the difficulty.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“The aristocracy of intellectual discernment which Gnosticism upheld in religion is abhorrent to the first principles of the Gospel.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“Gnosticism tried to establish, or rather preserve, an intellectual oligarchy in religion. It had its hidden wisdom, its exclusive mysteries, its privileged class.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon