colossi

Plural of colo us. Colo i an (kō-log'ian), a. and n. [Cf. L. Colos senses, n. pl., Colo i nus, a.; II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Colo æ, an ancient city of Phrygia, in Asia Minor; specifically, one of the Christians of Colo e, to whom Paul addre ed one of the epistles forming part of the canon of the New Testament. 2. pl. The abbreviated title of one of the books of the New Testament, "the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colo i ans." It was probably written during the earlier part of Paul's imprisonment at Rome, about A. D. 62. Gnostic and ascetic teachers had invaded the church, and the object of the epistle is to set before the disciples their real relation to Christ, and the consequent largene of both their spiritual life and their spir colpeurynter itual liberty. There is much in common, in the spirit, the thoughts, and even the phraseology of this epistle, with that to the Ephesians, which was written and sent about the same time. Often abbreviated Col.