| Colossians 1:15
| Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:
| The first{ Ver. 15. Primogenitus omnis creaturae; prototokos pases ktiseos. St. Chrysostom, log. g. p. 103. ou protoktistos, alla prototokos....oukoun ektistai.|} born of every creature. St. Chrysostom takes notice against the Arians, that the apostle calls Christ the first-begotten, or first-born, not the first created, because he was not created at all. And the sense is, that he was before all creatures, proceeding from all eternity from the Father; though some expound the words of Christ as man, and that he was greater in dignity. See Romans 8:29. (Witham)
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