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12 aEpaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always blaboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand cperfect and complete in all the will of God.  
13 For I bear him witness that he has a great1 zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.  
14 aLuke the beloved physician and bDemas greet you.  
15 Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and athe church that is in his house.  

Closing Exhortations and Blessing

16 Now when athis epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.  
17 And say to aArchippus, “Take heed to bthe ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”  
18 aThis salutation by my own hand—Paul. bRemember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Colossians 4:14

It is conjectured that Luke "the beloved physician" (the same as the Evangelist), may have first become connected with Paul in professionally attending on him in the sickness under which he labored in Phrygia and Galatia (in which latter place he was detained by sickness), in the early part of that journey wherein Luke first is found in his company (Acts 16:10; compare Note, see on Galatians 4:13). Thus the allusion to his medical profession is appropriate in writing to men of Phrygia. Luke ministered to Paul in his last imprisonment (II Timothy 4:11).

Demas—included among his "fellow laborers" (Philemon 1:24), but afterwards a deserter from him through love of this world (II Timothy 4:10). He alone has here no honorable or descriptive epithet attached to his name. Perhaps, already, his real character was betraying itself.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Colossians 4:14:

Mark 1:30
Acts 3:7
Acts 19:10
Acts 28:31
Philippians 2:21
Colossians 4:11
2 Timothy 4:10

 

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