...Origen's commentary is a manifest allusion to Col. i. 20. " having made peace through the " blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things " unto himself: by him, whether they be things in " earth, or things in heaven :" in which passage it is difficult to decide the person to...

...is said " He is before all things," does it mean absolute eternity? When it is said, " that in all things he might have the pre-eminence, for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell." Does this pre-eminence and fulness by the sovereign will and good pleasure...

...head of the body, the 18 church : who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead ; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence : 'for it pleased the Father that 19 in him should all fulness dwell ; and having made peace through the 20 blood of his cross, by him...

...righteousness which is of God by faith." To the Colossians : " It pleased the Father, that in him [the Son] should all fulness dwell ; and (having made peace...of his cross) by him to reconcile all things unto himself. And you that were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, hath he reconciled...

...; both which I apprehend to be the sense of the term in the following texts. 'It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all thfngs unto himself, by him, 1 say, whether they be things in...

...relation to the material universe, deliverance from the curse is assured: "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having...him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven" (Col. 1:19,20 — cf. Rom. 8:20-23). "Even...

...natural order. Cp. Colossians 1:19-20: "For it pleased the Father that in [Christ] should all fullness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of...him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." The construal of the Crucifixion as a...

...is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased...him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. The guiding idea is that Christ alone...

...is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell." — Col. 1:16-19. Christ is absolute without rival or peer. All the...

...the head of the body, the Church : who is the beginning, itte Jirst-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased...him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, 1 say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Col. i. 13, &c. "What is the reply ? —...