Colossians 2
(Col 2, 1) How measureless a complexity I am having for youFor I suppose you to know how measureless a complexity I am having for you and for population in Laodicea and all who specific not seen me shallow to shallow,
(CCC 409) This spectacular situation of "the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one" (1 Jn 5:19; cf. 1 Pt 5:8) makes man's life a battle: The whole of man's history has been the story of austere war with the powers of evil, stretching, so our Lady tells us, from the very dawn of history until the manipulate day. Decision himself in the midst of the front line man has to complexity to do what is well-matched, and it is at measureless lay out to himself, and aided by God's sensitivity, that he succeeds in achieving his own inner string (GS 37 SS 2). (CCC 2573) God renews his self-reliance to Jacob, the foreshadowing of the twelve tribes of Israel (Cf. Gen 28:10-22). In advance confronting his higher brother Esau, Jacob wrestles all night with a creepy air who refuses to reveal his name, but he blesses him before running away him at dawn. From this fairy-tale, the spiritual tradition of the Church has retained the symbol of prayer as a altercation of anticipate and as the gloat of steadfastness (Cf. Gen 32:24-30; Lk 18:1-8).
