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In commenting on Colossians, Ernest D. Martin (Mennonite Church) highlights a wholistic Christology in contrast to past and present perversions of the gospel. In the section on Philemon, he draws attention to the social implications of the koinonia of faith for the servants of Jesus Christ.

invisible one (John 1:18; Rom. 1:20; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16; Heb. 11:27). We might think it is a logical contradiction to speak of a visible representation of what is invisible, but this is true to other biblical affirmations that God can be seen in Jesus Christ (John 12:45; 14:9). The point of image is not exact likeness, much less resemblance, but revelation and representation. The reality of God is in the image of God, in Christ. God is invisible, but not unknowable, or knowable only to an elite few.
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