Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Colossians: Chapter 2].
faddists, can be with plausibility that catches the gullible.
2:5 {Though} (\ei kai\). Not \kai ei\ (even if). {Yet} (\alla\).
Common use of \alla\ in the apodosis (conclusion) of a
conditional or concessive sentence. {Your order} (\t•n taxin\).
The military line (from \tass•\), unbroken, intact. A few
stragglers had gone over to the Gnostics, but there had been no
panic, no breach in the line. {Steadfastness} (\stere•ma\). From
\stereo•\ (from \stereos\) to make steady, and probably the same
military metaphor as in \taxin\ just before. The solid part of
the line which can and does stand the attack of the Gnostics. See
Ac 16:5 where the verb \stereo•\ is used with \pistis\ and 1Pe
5:9 where the adjective \stereos\ is so used. In 2Th 3:6,8,11
Paul speaks of his own \taxis\ (orderly conduct).
2:6 {As therefore ye received} (\h•s oun parelabete\). Second
aorist active indicative of \paralamban•\ in same sense as in
1Th 4:1; Php 4:9 (both \manthan•\ and \paralamban•\) that is
like \manthan•\, to learn (1:7), from Epaphras and others.
{Christ Jesus the Lord} (\ton Christon I•soun ton Kurion\). This
peculiar phrase occurs nowhere else by Paul. We have often \ho
Christos\ (the Christ or Messiah) as in Php 1:15, \I•sous
Christos\ (Jesus Christ), \Christos I•sous\ (Christ Jesus), \ho
Kurios I•sous\ (the Lord Jesus, very often), but nowhere else \ho
Christos I•sous\ and \I•sous ho Kurios\. Hence it is plain that
Paul here meets the two forms of Gnostic heresy about the Person
of Christ (the recognition of the historical Jesus in his actual
humanity against the Docetic Gnostics, the identity of the Christ
or Messiah with this historical Jesus against the Cerinthian
Gnostics, and the acknowledgment of him as Lord). "As therefore
ye received the Christ (the Messiah), Jesus the Lord." Ye were
taught right. {Walk in him} (\en aut•i peripateite\). "Go on
walking in him" (present active indicative of \peripate•\). Stick
to your first lessons in Christ.
2:7 {Rooted} (\erriz•menoi\). Perfect passive participle of old
verb \rizo•\ from \riza\, root. In N.T. only here and Eph 3:17.
Paul changes the figure from walk to growing tree. {Builded up in
him} (\epoikodomoumenoi en aut•i\). Present passive participle
(rooted to stay so) of \epoikodome•\, old verb, to build upon as
in 1Co 3:10,12. The metaphor is changed again to a building as
continually going up (present tense). {Stablished}
(\bebaioumenoi\). Present passive participle of \bebaio•\, old
verb from \bebaios\ (from \bain•, bai•\), to make firm or stable.
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