fullness of God’s power, all the fullness of God’s purposes) was pleased to dwell in Jesus. It was God’s pleasure and delight that this should be so. To what end? That ‘all things’ (again filled out as in verse 16: whether on earth or in heaven) might be reconciled through him and to him. The great rupture in the unity and harmony of all things has been mended through Christ’s sacrificial death: making peace by the blood of his cross. The rebellion has been put down, the hostilities have been brought