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Epaphras
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Colossians 1:7  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Epaphras was either the man who raised up the Colossian church or he was the its pastor. The feeling of the commentators is that he was probably the man who was used to start the church, and that the pastor at the time the epistle was written was Tychicus. Epaphras may have also still been in the area, in the background. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 20)

Colossians 1:8  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Epaphras seems to have been the man who brought Paul the message about what was happening in Colosse, and asked for Paul's help in countering it. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 20)

Colossians 2:5  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The Colossians were following Christ, but the pressure was on, as Paul had heard from someone else. It may have been Epaphras or Tychicus—or even someone not even mentioned in the book. The word had come to Paul that the Christians in Colosse were undergoing a great deal of pressure, and the pressure was so great that he was afraid they would crack under it—that their faith would give away under the onslaught of the attack. He feared that they would weaken in the faith. The problem was a deceptive and persuasive philosophy that appeared to have many things in agreement with Christianity. The pressure was not necessarily coming from their pagan neighbors, urging them to stop keeping the Sabbath or the holy days. There may have been some of that happening, but the main problem was a philosophy that had been brought into the church by members from the outside, which they held to be valuable in making Christianity better than what they had received from the evangelists. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 20)

Colossians 2:7  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) "As you have been taught" refers to what Epaphras and Tychicus had taught the Colossians. Paul wanted them "abounding in it"—growing, producing fruit, and not deviating from it. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 20)

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