“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily — theotēs (deity, divine nature) in its plērōma (fullness, entirety) dwells sōmatikōs (bodily, corporeally) in Christ. This is incisive: Christ is not a vehicle for divine power but full deity itself. 'Dwells bodily' rejects Gnostic docetism: the divine is not illusory but incarnate. Against ascetic-Gnostic denials of matter stands bodily incarnation.
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