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However, as with several epistles attributed to Paul, critical scholarship disputes this claim.

One ground is that the epistle's language doesn't seem to match Paul's, with 48 words appearing in Colossians that are found nowhere else in his writings and 33 of which occur nowhere else in the New Testament.

A second ground is that the epistle features a strong use of liturgical-hymnic style which appears nowhere else in Paul's work to the same extent.

A third is that the epistle's themes related to Christ, eschatology and the church seem to have no parallel in Paul's undisputed works.