It is plain that if there is any causality in, for instance, that last sentence, it is quite the reverse of that supposed to be expressed by St. Paul in Greek. The sentence must be turned round, to get the priority of causation right: Christ became man’s first-born Brother in order that man might be conformed to Christ’s image. Our strong suspicion therefore is that eis to-with-infinitive is a construction which does not necessarily express the result of strict causality in the theme of the epistle
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