And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
And he is also a “beginning.” … But what benefits do we derive from believing that he is the beginning? We become ourselves what we believe our beginning to be. .
