to investigate
Embateuo describes investigating what someone has seen in a warning about false humility and a fleshly mind.
The attested use describes investigating what someone has seen within a warning against a person marked by false humility, angel worship, and an unreasoning fleshly mind.
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Investigating what has been seen · dominant
In Colossians 2:18, the present active nominative masculine participle occurs in the description of a person who is also associated with false humility and worship of angels. The APB renders the clause "investigating what he has seen," before describing him as "being puffed up without reason by his fleshly mind."
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Colossians 2:18, the APB presents the participial clause as "investigating what he has seen." This rendering identifies the clause's overall presentation rather than a precise lexical equivalent.