Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For God the Father none ever saw, and lived.
He calls Christ "the image of the invisible God.".
If Christ is not "the first-begotten before every creature".
It is well for us that in another passage (the apostle) calls Christ "the image of the invisible God.".
Thus does He make Him equal to Him: for by proceeding from Himself He became His first-begotten Son, because begotten before all things;