Colossians 1:17

And he is before all things,.... Not only in dignity, being preferable to angels and men in his nature, names, offices, and works, and worthy of more honour than all creatures; but he is before them…

And he is before all things - As he must be, if he created all things. Those who regard this as referring to a moral creation, interpret it as meaning that he has the pre-eminence over all things; not…

Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our…

he Emphatic in the Greek; He, and no other who could even seem to rival or obscure His sublime eminence.

is before all things ante omnes, Latin Versions. The Greek genitive form is ambiguous; it might…