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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

creation through him, effected by God through Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross (verses 19–20). Christ: the Greek begins with the relative “who” which refers to Christ, of course; it may be preferable to say “the Son” (as GeCL) since that is the form of the nearest reference (verse 13). Visible likeness translates the Greek word for “image.” Christ is elsewhere spoken of as the “image” of God (2 Cor 4:4). Man is also said to be the image of God (compare LXX Gen 1:27 “and God
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