of his flesh” (Col. 1:22), which expression likewise refers not only to the physical as material organism, but to the whole of Christ’s existence as a man subject to transitoriness, dishonor, frailty (cf. 1 Cor. 15:42ff.). And it was also in this flesh, i.e., his human existence delivered up to the death of the cross, that the enmity was abolished, the church reconciled, and sin condemned (Eph. 2:14, 15; Col. 1:2; Rom. 8:3). It is Christ’s being revealed in the flesh (to be understood in this way)