Κολοσσαί (
R T WH, the classical form), and
Κολασσαί (
Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see
WH. Introductory § 423,and especially
Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf.
Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural
Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3),
Κολοσσων,
αἱ,
Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in
Strabo's time a
πόλισμα (i. e.
small town (
Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (
Herodotus 7, 30;
Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6;
Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576;
Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about)
A.D. 66 ((
Eusebius, chron. Ol. 210);
Orosius Paulus, 7, 7 (see especially
Lightfoot as above, p. 38)):
Colossians 1:2. (See the full description, with copious references, by
Lightfoot as above, pp. 1-72.)
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