| Frank Wade - 2004 - 118 pagini
...prophecy (our destiny). Perhaps we should let the scripture speak for itself: "He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of all creation; for in Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| Marie-José Mondzain - 2005 - 284 pagini
...field up to the designs of empires. Here is the Epistle to the Colossians (1:15—18): He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| Michael J. Buckley - 2004 - 204 pagini
...(Parma, vol. 18), liber i, lectio i, pp. 226-228. 41. Col. 1:15-16 RSV (m): "He is the visible image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. For in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, the visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| Charles M. Wible - 2004 - 144 pagini
...creation — that we might unite ourselves with God through Christ. As St. Paul says: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth 121 were created. ..all things have been created through him and... | |
| Hans Küng - 2004 - 412 pagini
...Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 3.11). The classic Pauline witness, however, is Col. 1.15— 17: "He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| Martha Ann Kirk - 2004 - 388 pagini
...Christ is described with Sophia imagery in an early church hymn recorded in Colossians: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| Mary C. Grey - 2004 - 272 pagini
...is with these eyes that a contemporary reading of the Colossians text is undertaken: He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible ... all things were created... | |
| Duane Litfin - 2004 - 300 pagini
...education," 3 the Aposde Paul elaborates upon this same affirmation. Jesus Christ, he says, is "the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions... | |
| William R. Newell - 2005 - 506 pagini
..."Yes, the Firstborn, the highest — but a creature, evidently." But let them read the next verse, "For in Him were all things created in the heavens and upon the earth." We press upon the reader that there is no faintest hint of Christ's being a creature, but the exact... | |
| John Farrelly - 2005 - 330 pagini
...this, the author turns to the Jewish wisdom literature to ascribe all wisdom to Jesus: "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth. . . . He is before all things, and in him all things hold... | |
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