Commentary on Colossians & Philemon

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In this verse-by-verse commentary, Dr. McDonald examines two of Paul's shorter epistles that deal with significant themes still important for us today. Paul wrote to the Colossians to combat a gnostic heresy that degraded Christ to one among many avenues to God. Although the specific heresy may have passed, similar heretical views are still with us. Paul's answer for the Colossians remains the corrective for all such errors regarding the supremacy, deity, and all-sufficiency of Christ. Similarly, though Philemon is a purely personal letter to a friend, it contains the seed from which, in time, sprang the abolition of slavery. The epistle still remains as the corrective of all forms of racism.