Son he loves, in whom we have redemption … who is the image.…” If Paul is quoting a “hymn,” he has probably replaced the original noun with the relative pronoun to connect the hymn to the context.132 The hymn opens with two parallel depictions of the Son: image of God and firstborn over all creation. “Image” (Gk. eikōn) is basically something that looks like, or represents, something else. Its most common reference in biblical Greek is to objects that are designed to represent other gods. “Image”