Colossians 1:18
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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Study Note
The declaration that Christ 'is the head of the body, the church' and 'the beginning, the firstborn from the dead' — so that 'in all things he might have the preeminence' — links ecclesiology directly to christology and eschatology in a single verse. The term 'firstborn from the dead' (prōtotokos ek tōn nekrōn) makes the resurrection the basis of Christ's new-creation headship, paralleling the cosmological firstborn of verse 15 with a soteriological title. The image of Christ as head of the body draws on Stoic cosmological language about the Logos as the rational principle governing the universe, but radically personalizes it by rooting it in the particular history of the crucified and risen Jesus. Ephesians 1:22-23 and 4:15-16 develop this metaphor into a full ecclesiology of mutual dependence between head and body.
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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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