Chapter 4), the key to creation is here found not in ‘Wisdom’, ‘Logos’ or hypostatized ‘Man’, but in the One whom Christians know and worship as Christ. It is important to observe how the claims of the first ‘strophe’ of the ‘hymn’ (1:15–17) match those to be found in the second strophe. This celebrates Christ as archē (beginning, authority) in relation to the resurrection—‘the first born from the dead, that he might be pre-eminent in all things (en pasin)’ (1:18). As the founding event of the new