From: Jeffrey B. Gibson (jgibson000@ameritech.net)
Date: Mon Nov 09 1998 - 13:57:41 EST
GregStffrd@aol.com wrote:
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> Also, either Christ is the actual firstborn of God, or someone else is. If the
> use of PRWTOTOKOS in Col. 1:15 is figurative, then who is it that Christ
> supplants as firstborn?
Not to be flippant, but I think a case could be made for Torah and/or
the figure of Wisdom. Perhaps what we have in the claims about Jesus in
Colossians is not incipient Niceanism or sheer ontological speculation,
but an intra-Jewish argument about where the God of Israel's purposes
are best revealed.
Yours,
Jeffrey Gibson
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