Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
All Commentaries on Colossians 1:15 Go To Colossians 1
Athanasius the Apostolic
AD 373
But though he is Word, he is not, as we said, comparable to human words, composed of syllables; but he is the unchanging image of his own Father. For men, composed of parts and made out of nothing, speak in a composite and divisible fashion. But God possesses true existence and is not composite; hence his Word also has true existence and is not made of different parts or syllables. He is the one and onlybegotten God, who proceeds in his goodness from the Father as from a good Fountain, and orders all things and holds them together.
