Colossians 1:18 (WEB)
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Catechism · 5
In the Age of the Church
“In the newness of the Spirit, they also composed hymns and canticles in the light of the unheard - of event that God accomplished in his Son: his Incarnation, his death which conquered death, his Resurrection, and Ascension to the right hand of the Father.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:15-20; Eph 5:14; 1 Tim 3:16; 6:15-16; 2 Tim 2:11-13.
"Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary"
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“From "his fullness" as the head of redeemed humanity "we have all received, grace upon grace."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:16; cf. Col 1:18.
Jesus Christ Was Buried
“It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb, reveals God's great sabbath rest after the fulfilment of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Col 1: 18-20.
The Church in God's Plan
“In the New Testament, all these images find a new center because Christ has become the head of this people, which henceforth is his Body.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 1:22; Col 1:18; LG 9.
The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit
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“Christ "is the head of the body, the Church."” — Catechism footnote: Col 1:18.
Fathers and councils · 37
Gregory of Nyssa
“The mighty Paul, knowing that the Only-begotten God, Who has the pre-eminence in all things, is the author and cause of all good, bears witness to Him that not only was the creation of all existent things wrought by Him, but that when the original…” — editor's note: Cf. Col. i. 18
Read the whole comment“…to Him Who, as the Psalmist declares, “ruleth with His power for ever,” and to bring Him Who, as the Apostle says, “in all things hath the pre-eminence,” to a level with the servile nature, by means of the name and conception of “creation”?” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“For now he speaks of “the first-born of all creation,” and again of “the first-born among many brethren,” then of “the first-born from the dead;” and in the Epistle to the Hebrews the name of “first-begotten” is absolute, being mentioned by itself: for he speaks thus, “When again He bringeth the…” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Then, at last, He came on to death itself, that He might be “the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence,” the Prince of life, existing before all, and going before all.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“…in His mouth;” and that He might have the pre-eminence over those things which are under the earth, He Himself being made “the first-begotten of the dead;” and that all things, as I have already said, might behold their King; and that the paternal light might meet with and rest upon the flesh of our Lord, and come…” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…because He became man, that, as the Apostle has said, He who is the ‘Beginning’ and ‘First-born from the dead, in all things might have the preeminence.’” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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John Damascene
“And, Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept, and the first-born from the dead; and again, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“As the Apostle says, Who is the Image of the Invisible God; and a little after, and He is the Head of the body, the Church.” — editor's note: Col. i. 15, 18.
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Origen
“…whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and in Him: and He is before all, and He is the head.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 16–18.
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“…or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him; and He is before all, and all things consist by Him, who is the Head.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. i. 16–18.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““He calls Him ‘the first fruits of them that sleep,’ as being ‘the first born from the dead,’ and He, after His resurrection, wishing to show that that which was risen was the same as that which had undergone death, when the disciples were doubting,…” — editor's note: Coloss. i. 18
Read the whole comment““So he calls Him ‘The firstfruits of them that slept,’ and ‘The first born of the dead.’” — editor's note: Coloss. i. 18
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“The blessed Paul called the Christ “the first born of the dead;” and I suppose the first born has the same nature as they of whom He is called first born.” — editor's note: Coloss. i. 18
Read the whole comment “If any one denies that the Word of God suffered in the flesh and tasted death in the flesh, and was the first-born of the dead, as the Son is life and giver of life, let him be anathema.” — editor's note: Coloss. i. 18. Rev. i. 5
Read the whole comment“We are members one of another,” and form one body, having the Lord Christ for head.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18
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Ambrose of Milan
“…to the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of this world, not according to Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of Godhead in bodily shape.”” — editor's note: It would, I think, be unfair to construe this passage into an absolute condemnation of all the results of human activity, arrived at without any conscious…
Read the whole comment“…all things, and the Author of each several virtue, in that He is the Head of the Church, as it is written: “Because He is the Head of the Body, of the Church; Who is the beginning, first-begotten from the dead.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“For now we know not Christ according to the flesh, but we possess the grace of that Flesh, so that we know Him the firstfruits of them that rest, the firstborn of the dead.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
““And the lifter up of my head,” of Him, namely, who, “the First-born from the dead,” ascended up into heaven.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“The Head of the Church is Christ, the members of Christ are the Church.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“…of His body, in the person of those holy men who came before Him as regards the time of birth, nevertheless He is Himself the Head of the body, the Church, and all these have been attached to that same body of which He is the head, in virtue of their believing in Him whom they announced prophetically.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18
Read the whole comment“According to the form of God, “He is the first-born of every creature, and He is before all things and by him all things consist;” according to the form of a servant, “He is the head of the body, the Church.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 15, 17, 18
Read the whole comment“…example to those who are to die that they may not fear, an example to the dead that they may rise again, “that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18
Read the whole comment““The first-born” certainly “from the dead,” according to the same apostle; by which death His flesh was sown in dishonor, and rose again in glory.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18
Read the whole comment“God, then, dwells in His temple: not the Holy Spirit only, but the Father also, and the Son, who says of His own body, through which He was made Head of the Church upon earth (“that in all things He might have the pre-eminence):” “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18
Read the whole comment“Wherefore, “He escaped again unto the mountain alone,—the first-begotten from the dead, ascending above all heavens, and interceding for us.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18; Rom. viii. 34.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“He calls Him, then, “the first-fruits of them that sleep,” as the “first-begotten of the dead.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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John Chrysostom
“For as in other things Christ hath been our beginning, so also hath He in this; wherefore He is called “the first-born from the dead.” ( Col. i. 18.)” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“But the sacrament of baptism He founded in His own person, because “in all things having the pre-eminence,” He taught that He Himself was the Beginning.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“…and buried: so that according to those who thus think, there is no reason to hope for the resurrection, and Christ is not “the first-begotten from the dead;” because He was not One who ought to have been raised again, if He had not been One who could be slain.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“…pre-eminence, because in Him it was pleasing that all fulness (of the Godhead) should dwell, and that through Him all things should be reconciled in Himself.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18–20: the word Divinitatis (of the Godhead) is omitted by some of the mss. here.
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John Cassian
“Because it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and through Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things on earth, and the things that are in heaven.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 12–20.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in Him should all the fulness dwell, and through Him all things should be reconciled to Him.” — editor's note: Col. i. 15–20.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle also recognises the mystery of this brotherhood, for he calls Him not only the firstborn from the dead, but also the firstborn among many brethren.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…the Resurrection of which He was the Firstfruits; condescending, as He became the Firstborn among many brethren, so also to become the Firstborn from the dead.” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in the same place: “The first-born from the dead, that He might in all things become the holder of the pre-eminence.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Jerome
“…also on the cross, His death and burial, which was the saving of the world, and His resurrection in a true and not an imaginary sense, we confess; and that being the firstborn from the dead, He conveyed to heaven the firstfruits of our bodily substance which, after being laid in the tomb, He raised to life, thus…” — editor's note: Col. i. 18.
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Cross-references · 32
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
Cited together in Against Eunomius III.1.
Cited together in Catechism §624.
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Cited together in Catechism §624.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Against Eunomius III.1.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Catechism §504.
Cited together in Catechism §504.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Catechism §624 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §624.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Catechism §624.
Cited together in Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus §3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §504.
Cited together in Catechism §504.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.