Colossians 1:18
Douay-Rheims
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
Gregory of Nyssa
And he is also a "beginning." … But what benefits do we derive from believing that he is the beginning? We become ourselves what we believe our beginning to be. .
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A.D. 395 · on Col 1:18
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.