Verse 7
Even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf.
It was Macknight's opinion that the word "also" in Colossians 1:8 properly modifies "from Epaphras" and that this verse becomes a denial of what it is usually quoted as affirming, that Paul did not convert the Colossians. He said:
The Colossians had learned the true doctrine of the gospel, not from the apostle alone, but they had learned it from Epaphras also.[17]
The sequential arrangement of clauses and phrases has a tremendous bearing upon their meaning; and as long as the learned dispute about the proper arrangement in a given verse, all options as to the meaning of it should remain open.
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