“Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,”
Not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth that is from God — 'Holding fast' (krateo) the Head (Christ, kephalē) is essential. The body metaphor: the body is 'nourished and knit together' (epichorēgeō, symbibazo) through 'joints and ligaments' (haphe, syndesmos). 'Grows with the growth that is from God' (auxanō auxēsin tou Theou) shows growth is divinely sourced. Detached from Christ-head, the body cannot grow. This is the letter's clearest ecclesiology.
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