indicates the corresponding expansive thrust of early Christian theology. It is not merely that all these classes of people are ‘one in Christ Jesus’ (Gal. 3:28), or that they have been baptized into one body, the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12–13): rather, Col. 3:11 makes the far broader claim that ‘Christ is all and in all’ (ta panta kai en pasin Christos). Hence a formula which originally claimed the reunification and remaking of humankind in baptism here reflects the expansion of Christian horizons