Colossians Manuscript - Corps Night - March 28 - 1984

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initiated one. The same word you had in 1:28. Now the word "complete" in Aramaic it's mla which means complete or full. It's the same word that's used in Colossians 2:10, where you are complete in him, but it's not used in that extra intensive form. It's a different form here. It just 124 Teachings on The Book of Colossians simply means full or complete. The Greek word is plēroō which means to fill to capacity. And that is, in the perfect tense, the same as in Colossians 2:10. "You are absolutely complete" would be the sense of it or filled to capacity, in all the will of God. Now some Greek texts have another word which means fully persuaded or fully convinced, which is not a bad word either. Because, if you are full in all the will of God, or complete or absolutely complete in the will of God, wouldn't you be fully convinced of it, fully persuaded? So it's not a bad word there. We tran