Colossae
Americannoun
noun
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After passing Colossae he arrived at Colaenae, where he was joined by more Greek troops, the number of whom now amounted to 11,000 hoplites and 2000 peltasts.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
Colossae was the least important town to which any Epistle of St. Paul which now remains was addressed.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
The Epistle is addressed to Philemon, a substantial citizen of Colossae.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
Others, too, were with him, but none perhaps was dearer to S. Paul than a certain slave, Onesimus, who had fled from his master, Philemon, in Colossae.
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by Wilmot-Buxton, H. J.
Some difficulties are connected with the heresy taught by the religious agitators at Colossae.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
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