Anf-01 v.vii.i Pg 8
Col. i. 15.
God the Word, the only-begotten Son, and was of the seed of David according to the flesh,981 981
Anf-01 v.xiv.iv Pg 2
Col. i. 15.
and God the Word, who also created all things. For says the apostle, “There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.”1191 1191
Anf-02 ii.iv.ix Pg 28.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 52
Comp. Bible:Heb.1.3">Ex. xxxiii. 20; John i. 18; xiv. 9; Col. i. 15; Heb. i. 3.
And accordingly it is agreed that the Son of God Himself spake to Moses, and said to the people, “Behold, I send mine angel before thy”—that is, the people’s—“face, to guard thee on the march, and to introduce thee into the land which I have prepared thee: attend to him, and be not disobedient to him; for he hath not escaped1296 1296 Oehler and others read “celavit”; but the correction of Fr. Junius and Rig., “celabit,” is certainly more agreeable to the LXX. and the Eng. ver.
thy notice, since my name is upon him.”1297 1297
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xix Pg 7
Col. i. 15.
We in like manner say that the Father of Christ is invisible, for we know that it was the Son who was seen in ancient times (whenever any appearance was vouchsafed to men in the name of God) as the image of (the Father) Himself. He must not be regarded, however, as making any difference between a visible and an invisible God; because long before he wrote this we find a description of our God to this effect: “No man can see the Lord, and live.”6062 6062
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xix Pg 9
Col. i. 15. Our author’s “primogenitus conditionis” is St. Paul’s πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως, for the meaning of which see Bp. Ellicott, in loc.
as that “Word of God by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made;”6064 6064
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xx Pg 12
Col. i. 15.
For will it not follow with equal force from that passage, that Christ is not truly God, because the apostle places Him in the image of God, if, (as Marcion contends,) He is not truly man because of His having taken on Him the form or image of a man? For in both cases the true substance will have to be excluded, if image (or “fashion”) and likeness and form shall be claimed for a phantom. But since he is truly God, as the Son of the Father, in His fashion and image, He has been already by the force of this conclusion determined to be truly man, as the Son of man, “found in the fashion” and image “of a man.” For when he propounded6106 6106 Posuit.
Him as thus “found” in the manner6107 6107 Inventum ratione.
of a man, he in fact affirmed Him to be most certainly human. For what is found, manifestly possesses existence. Therefore, as He was found to be God by His mighty power, so was He found to be man by reason of His flesh, because the apostle could not have pronounced Him to have “become obedient unto death,”6108 6108
Anf-03 v.ix.vii Pg 9
Col. i. 15.
and His only-begotten also, because alone begotten of God, in a way peculiar to Himself, from the womb of His own heart—even as the Father Himself testifies: “My heart,” says He, “hath emitted my most excellent Word.”7830 7830
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (15) - Ex 24:10 Nu 12:8 Eze 1:26-28 Joh 1:18; 14:9; 15:24 2Co 4:4,6
