throughout the Epistle as being. Certainly there is no reason why this author should not have ascribed “eternal glory” to the Being he had described as in His very nature “the effulgence of the divine glory,”11 and for that very reason it may be a matter of indifference to us whether he has done so or not. Nor is much added to this picture of the divine Christ by his designation of Him, without qualification, as ‘the Firstborn’ (1:6), or by his noticing that God has “appointed Him Heir of all things” (1:2).