Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For the word firstborn is not expressive of dignity and honor, nor of anything else, but of time only…. Indeed, so that people will not suppose that he has a more recent origin in time—since in the past the approach to the Father was through angels, but is now through Christ—he shows first that these angels had no power (otherwise Christ could not have been born “out of darkness” [v. ]), Paul shows next that Christ is also before them.
