Elementary Principles/Elemental Spirits (stoicheia)

Elemental Powers/PrinciplesBiblical Theology

Paul uses the Greek word *stoicheia* to describe the elementary principles—or possibly elemental spirits—that once held the world in bondage and from which the cross has set believers free.

Primary verses · Gal 4:3,9; Col 2:8,20

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Thirteenth-century cosmological diagram from Robert Grosseteste's De Sphaera, the elemental spheres of the cosmos.

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“Paul uses the Greek word *stoicheia* to describe the elementary principles—or possibly elemental spirits—that once held the world in bondage and from which the cross has set believers free.”

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