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The Christian Household in Colossians 3:18-4:1

Colossians 3:18-4:1 contains instructions concerning relationships within the early Christian household: wives and husbands, children and parents, slaves and masters. There are telltale signs in the passage that Paul is making use of material which had been borrowed by Christian teachers from earlier sources for the instruction of new converts. One sign is that this section erupts suddenly and without transition from what had gone before and has no close connection with the main argument of the letter, though the section on slaves probably has a special bearing on the Onesimus-Philemon incident Another is the style. The style is not Paul's. Rather, it is that of a catechist, arranging his materials in terse, easy to be remembered lines. 2 A third is the content The earlier teaching has been "Christianized" and perhaps "Paulinized" by the insertion of key phrases such as "in (the) Lord" (en kyrio). And this Christianization" is significant, for as C. F. D. Moule 3 has said, it changes the motives, quality, and conditions of these three relationships. Nevertheless, the basic content still bears the marks of earlier formulation. Indeed, Dibelius called it "strikingly poor: in original Christian material." 4