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Definition of Colossian
1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of the city of Colossae in ancient Phrygia.
Definition of Colossian
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to, Colossae ¹
2. Noun. Someone from Colossae ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colossian
Literary usage of Colossian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer (1897)
"But there is no need to assume an identity of origin of the colossian heresy ...
Notwithstanding its affinities with Gnosticism, the colossian heresy must ..."
2. Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: Being an by Daniel Wilson (1845)
"THE colossian CHRISTIANS ACCEPTED WITHOUT LEGAL OBSERVANCES—THEIR ABOLITION-
TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS. COL. ii. 13—17. THE apostle having cleared the capital ..."
3. An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament by James Moffatt (1911)
"Furthermore, the supposed aim of the original colossian epistle, viz., to oppose
the </>i\oo-o</>i'u of Philo, involves too restricted a meaning of ..."
4. Popular Lectures on the Books of the New Testament by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1914)
"THE EPISTLE TO PHILEMON PHILEMON was perhaps a native, and certainly a resident,
of the city of Colosse, one of the colossian Christians, therefore, ..."
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