passage is significant because it ties in cosmic redemption with the fact that Christ is the author of creation as well as redemption (see v. 16, “all things were created through him [Christ] and for him”). Christ is involved in redemption as the one through whom and for whom all things were created, and as the one who is therefore deeply concerned with the entire creation. Nothing short of the total deliverance of creation from its “bondage to decay” (Rom. 8:21) will satisfy the redemptive purposes