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Colossians 1

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colossians.1.col1Fullness

πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα κατοικῆσαι

GRAMMARINTERPRETATIONlow confidence

Whose fullness was pleased to dwell in him?

The subject is ‘all the fullness,’ with God’s agency implied by the divine good pleasure. The phrase anticipates the fullness of deity in 2:9.

Why this default

Keeping all the fullness as grammatical subject leads because that is the clause’s explicit syntax and preserves its personified divine good pleasure; supplying God clarifies an implied agent but changes the construction.

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Project defaultall the fullness was pleased

Project default · Greek subject retained

AlternativeGod was pleased to have all fullness

Responsible alternative · implied agent supplied

Alternativethe fullness in its entirety chose to dwell in him

Totality and dwelling foregrounded

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