Oh, you are so boringly predictable. He said it was a path, meaning one among many options. In fact, the Bible is something the Catholics and Orthodox have in common, since neither followed the anti-Christ expunging of several parts of Scripture committed by the participants at Jamnia, and adopted by the “Reformed” Christians.
The contrast between Romans and Colossians was pointed out by a missionary who works in Kosovo, since he is at the fault line between Eastern and Western Christendom.
When I first heard him mention that about two years ago, it was intriguing.
I seriously think that there is much material to be mined from the Scriptures, since they are eternal.
On top of that, there was an essay (I think on FR) about the differences between East and West, and Augustine was precisely mentioned as an example of what the East has rejected.
..... not that I agreed with the writer, since he seemed to downplay the reality of original sin.
-— which is why many Western Christians (RCC and prot) still think more alike than we recognize.