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this predicate, by the three participles. Paul mentions these >ints in the same order, Col. i. 15, 17, 20. The first participle and likewise the second, from the finite verb exMitev, sat down, being the aorist, have the meaning of an imperfect tense, and may be resolved into because, &v, <pfyuv rs, because (inasmuch as) le was, because (inasmuch as) He was upholding (comp. d\, i. v. 8) ; but the third, as being without the particle r\, and, >hering more closely with the same finite verb, is to be resolved into after that : cro/?j #«//,£ i/og, after that He made. — e8v — p spuv «, because [inasmuch as] He was — and upheld) That glory, on which the Son entered when He was exalted to the right hand of the Father, no angel was capable of taking, but the Son took it ; for He also had it formerly in respect of God, whose jlory shines refulgently in Him, and in respect of all things, which He upholds ; John vi. 62 ; Rev. i. 18. — airavyafffta, the brightness) Wisd. vii. 25, 26 : For she (wisdom) is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the GLORY (AOSH2) of the Almighty : therefore no defiled thing falls into her. For she is the BRIGHTNESS (AnATFASMA) of the everlast- light, and the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the ige of His goodness. 'ATO has in this compound word an itensive power — as in a-Troar/X/Sw, dToxusw, d<ror/xrw, avt'fcw,— not le power of diminishing. It does not imply less or greater, but propagation [extension of the Father's glory]. — r5js dofyc, of the glory) Glory denotes the nature of God revealed in His brightness, the same as His eternal power and Godhead, Rom. i. 20. — xapaKrqp, the impress, the express image) Whatever the hypostasis (personal essence) of the Father has, that is repre sented in the Son, as His express image. — \j<noGra<izug, of His hypostasis) [of His personal essence]. If we gather from the LXX. the meaning of this word, variously used by them — never however concerning GOD — it denotes here the immoveable ever- lastingness of the Divine life and power ; comp. ver. 11. There fore the parallels are 86% a, the glory, always undefiled [* incor ruptible'], Rom. i. 23, and WoVrarf/g, the hypostasis or personal essence, which always holds as it were the same place. It was with this feeling that the old Rabbins, as it would seem, called God Dlpo, Place, or rather State. — ra vavra, all things) [the uni verse^. The article is to be referred to vdvruv, of all things, ver. 2.