2: 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the 27full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery 28of God, even Christ,
27Or, fulness
28So p46B almost alone (or, of God the father of Christ,). ℵ* 048 (CA copbo) vg read of God the father of Christ, 1739 81 almost alone read of Christ, D* almost alone reads of God, which is Christ, 33 alone reads of God in Christ, 1881 H P read of God, A majority of lesser Gk. mss. read of God even the Father, and of Christ,
2: 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
2: 4 This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
2: 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
2: 6 As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
2: 7 rooted and builded up in him, and established 29in the faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
29So B 33 81 vg (ℵ 1739 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm). AC I read in faith, 048vid copsa,bo read in it in the faith,
2: 8 30Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and empty deceit, after the tradition of men, after the 31rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
30Or, See whether there shall be
31Or, elements See Ga 4:3 margin.
2: 9 for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the divine nature bodily,
2: 10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
2: 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ:
2: 12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also 32awakened with him through faith in the working of God, who awakened him from the dead.
32Or, raised (twice) And in ch. 3:1.
2: 13 And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, 33you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
33So ℵ*CA 1739 81 copsa,bo. p46B 33 almost alone read us, D arm vg omit you, I say,
2: 14 having blotted out 34the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross:
34Or, the bond that was against us by its ordinances, or, the handwriting of ordinances against us,
2: 15 35having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
35Or, having put off from himself the principalities etc.
2: 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or sabbath days:
2: 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is 36Christ’s.
36Or, of the Christ.
2: 18 Let no man rob you of your prize 37by a voluntary humility and 38worshipping of the 39angels, trampling in the things 40which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
37Or, of his own mere will, by humility etc.
38The Greek word denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to a creature, or to the Creator.
39Or, messengers,
40So p46ℵ*BA I 1739 33 and a few others, copsa,bo. C (81) 1175 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg read which he hath not seen,
2: 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, will grow with the growth of God.
2: 20 If ye died with Christ from the 41rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances:
41Or, elements See Ga 4:3 margin.
2: 21 Handle not, nor taste, nor touch
2: 22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?
2: 23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed worship, and 42humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any 43value against the indulgence of the flesh.
42So ℵCA 33 81 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa arm vg. p46B 1739 almost alone omit humility, and G and few others read humility of understanding, and copbo almost alone reads humility of understanding,
43Or, honor
