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Journal Article
\I Fill Up What Is Lacking in the Afflictions of Christ\: Paul's Vicarious Suffering in Colossians
2006
Overview
When the author has Paul say, \"I rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,\" he introduces philological and theological issues that continue to perplex interpreters.1 The philological anomalies include the double-prefixed word ..., which is a hapax legomenon in the NT; in addition, ... appears nowhere else in the NT in connection with Christ, and the noun ... is not used elsewhere in the NT to speak of the suffering of Jesus on the cross or in his ministry, though it often refers to the suffering of Christians. Chrysostom, in no fewer than five places, uses Col 1:24 to exhort his readers to live the Christian life, encouraging them through the example of Paul's sufferings.51 Such ancient interpreters had an understanding of Paul's sufferings that neither diminished the work of Christ nor excessively elevated Paul.52 The understanding of Paul's suffering at which we have arrived would have made possible such easy use of this passage.
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
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