The ‘First-born Son’ of God, Begotten as ‘Word of Truth’

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In Colossians 1:15-19, we read:

The beloved Son is the Image of the invisible God,[1] the first-born over all creation:[2] For through him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created through him, and for him:[3] And he is before all things,[4] and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church:[5] who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead [i.e. those yet without “true Life=hayyā“]; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him all fullness [plērōma] should dwell.

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