Colossians 2:19

• §794Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

  “Christ provides for our growth: to make us grow toward him, our head,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Col 2:19; Eph 4:11-16.

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus V.8Book V

  “…and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joint and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. ii. 18, 19.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies IV.32Book IV

  “…means of every joint according to the measure of the ministration of each several part, maketh increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 16; Col. ii. 19.

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• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.14Book V

  “…flesh of our Lord, re-established by His blood; and “holding the Head, from which the whole body of the Church, having been fitted together, takes increase”—that is, acknowledging the advent in the flesh of the Son of God, and [His] divinity (deum), and looking forward with constancy to His human nature (hominem),…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 19.

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Catena Aurea on Luke

• BedeCatena Aurea on Luke

  “Wisdom truly, for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, (Col. 2:19.) but grace, because it was in great grace given to the man Christ Jesus, that from the time He began to be man He should be perfect man and perfect God.” — the author cites it

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.6Book I

  “If you held the Head you would consider that the whole body, by joining together rather than by separating, grows unto the increase of God by the bond of charity and the rescue of a sinner.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 19.

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit II.9Book II

  “And again, writing to the Colossians of those who have not the knowledge of the Son of God, he says: “Because they hold not the Head, from Whom all the body being supplied and joined together through joints and bands, increaseth to the increase of God.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 19.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 11

  “He violateth the temple of God, who violateth unity: for he “holdeth not the head, from which the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth according to the working after the measure of every part maketh increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 19; Eph. iv. 16.

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John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 4

  “For the expression “from Whom,” which you decide to belong properly to the Father alone, he uses also concerning the Son, when he says, “from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.” ( Col. ii. 19.)” — the author cites it

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Letters Letter 15

  “…flesh, not holding fast the Head from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.”” — editor's note: Ibid. 18, 19.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 4

  “And again in the Epistle to the Colossians, to them that have not the knowledge of the Only Begotten, there is mention of him that holdeth “the head,” that is, Christ, “from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered increaseth with the increase of God.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 19.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.18Book V

  “…meats—“you must not touch, you must not taste”—in a voluntary humility, (at the same time) “vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind, and not holding the Head,” (the apostle) does not in these terms attack the law or Moses, as if it was at the suggestion of superstitious angels that he had enacted his prohibition of…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 18, 19, 21.

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Parallel passages

• Ephesians 4:16

  Ephesians 4:16 and Colossians 2:19 share the same wording (10 words).

Cited together with

• Genesis 1:3

  Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.

• Genesis 4:10

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Genesis 9:5

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Genesis 9:6

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Jeremiah 7:17

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.8.

• Jeremiah 7:18

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.8.

• Matthew 23:35

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Luke 2:39

  Cited together in Bede on Luke 2:39–41 (3) (Catena Aurea).

• Luke 2:40

  Cited together in Bede on Luke 2:39–41 (3) (Catena Aurea).

• Luke 2:41

  Cited together in Bede on Luke 2:39–41 (3) (Catena Aurea).

• Luke 11:50

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• John 1:3

  Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.

• Acts 7:42

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.8.

• Acts 7:43

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.8.

• Romans 6:13

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Ephesians 2:13

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Ephesians 2:15

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.

• Ephesians 4:5

  Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.

• Ephesians 4:6

  Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.

• Ephesians 4:11

  Cited together in Catechism §794.

• Ephesians 4:12

  Cited together in Catechism §794.

• Ephesians 4:13

  Cited together in Catechism §794.

• Ephesians 4:14

  Cited together in Catechism §794.

• Ephesians 4:15

  Cited together in Catechism §794.

• Ephesians 4:16

  Cited together in Catechism §794 and 1 other place.