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Introductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman Presbyter.
[5188] Col. i. 15. [But not a creature, for the apostle immediately subjoins that He is the Creator and final Cause of the universe. Moreover, the first-born here seems to mean the heir of all creation, for such is the logical force of the verse following. So, πρωτοτοκεῖα (in the Seventy) = heirship. Gen. xxv. 31.]
[5191] Perhaps the emendation homine instead of homo is right. “He puts on and puts off humanity, as if it were a kind of tunic for a compacted body.”
[5193] According to Pamelius, ch. xvii.
[5195] [Not “a seipso Deus.” See Bull, Defens., vol. v. p. 685.]
[5196] According to Pamelius, ch. xviii.
[5197] [The Noetians, Hippol., p. 148, supra.]
[5198] [Irenæus, vol. i. p. 527.]
[5199] According to Pamelius, ch. xix.
[5203] “The miraculous generation is here represented as the natural, but by no means as the only cause for which He who had no human father was to receive the name of God’s Son.”—Oosterzee, in loco, on Luke.—Tr.
[5204] Principalitas.
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