Category Archives: Colossians

“In Him all things hold together” by Douglas Moo

“What holds the universe together is not an idea or a virtue, but a person: the resurrected Christ. Without Him, electrons would not continue to circle nuclei, gravity would cease to work, and the planets would not stay in their … Continue reading

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“We may behold Him as in a mirror” by John Calvin

“Paul calls the Son the ‘image of the invisible God’, meaning by this, that it is in Him alone that God, who is otherwise invisible, is manifested to us, in accordance with what is said in John 1:18, ‘No man … Continue reading

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“The only remedy for false teaching” by John Calvin

“Again Paul returns to thanksgiving, that he may take this opportunity of enumerating the blessings which had been conferred upon them through Christ, and thus he enters upon a full delineation of Christ. For this was the only remedy for … Continue reading

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