Colossians 1:16 Douay-Rheims

For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

Tertullian

c. A.D. 150–220 Patristic

To her, therefore, he despatches Soter, (who must be the same as Jesus, to whom the Father imparted the supreme power over the whole body of the ¦ons, by subjecting them all to him, so that "by him," as the apostle says, "all things were created" ), with a retinue and cortege of contemporary angels, and (as one may suppose) with the dozen fasces.

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A.D. 220 · on Col 1:16 (Against the Valentinians)

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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