it possible to secure for Christ a central place in the whole scheme of things so that through him we might feel ourselves independent of every other power? It can easily be understood how in this effort Paul was led to fall back on the Logos conception which he had previously found little occasion to use. He begins by defining the place of Christ: (1) with reference to God; (2) with reference to creation. Taking up an idea which he had already touched on in 2 Cor. 4:4 he describes Christ [15] as
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