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The Story-Line of Christian Precreation
RhetorolectLESSON 5 CHRISTIAN PRECREATION
RHETOROLECT IN COLOSSIANS AND EPHESIANS

• Colossians and Ephesians, two disputed letters
  of Paul, contain highly developed Christian
  precreation rhetorolect.
• Colossians speaks of precreation Christ as the
  image of God.
• Ephesians speaks of Christ as the mystery and
  plan of God before the ages.

• Click to read about Pauls precreation
  rhetorolect.

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• CHRISTIAN PRECREATION RHETOROLECT IN COLOSSIANS
  AND EPHESIANS RECONFIGURES BIBLICAL AND
  PSEUDEPIGRAPHICAL PRECREATION DISCOURSE ABOUT
  WISDOM AND THE INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE SO IT
  FOCUSES ON CHRIST, GODS BELOVED SON

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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1-2 CHRIST IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD

• Colossians 1-2 speaks of Christ as the image of
  the invisible God.
• Resources for the Christian precreation
  rhetorolect in Colossians lie in Genesis, Sirach,
  and Wisdom of Solomon.
• Click to read about the image of God in Genesis
  1.

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Hebrew Bible Resource
THE IMAGE OF GODin Genesis 1

• Genesis 126 God said, Let us make the human in
  our image, after our likeness and let them have
  dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
  birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and
  over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
  that creeps on the earth.
• 127 God created the human in his own image. In
  Gods image he created him male and female he
  created them.
• Click to read about precreation wisdom in Sirach
  24 and Wisdom of Solomon 7.

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Hebrew Bible Resource
PRECREATION WISDOMin Sirach 24 and Wisdom
of Solomon 7

• Sirach 249 Before the ages, in the beginning, he
  created me wisdom, and for all the ages I shall
  not cease to be.
• Wisdom 726 For wisdom is a reflection of eternal
  light,
• a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an
  image of his goodness.
• 727 Though she is but one, she can do all
  things, and while remaining in herself, she
  renews all things in every generation she passes
  into holy souls and makes them friends of God,
  and prophets
• 728 for God loves nothing so much as the human
  who lives with wisdom.
• Click to read about precreation wisdom in Wisdom
  8.

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PRECREATION WISDOMin Wisdom of Solomon 8

• Wisdom 81 Wisdom reaches mightily from one end
  of the earth to the other, and she orders all
  things well.
• 83 She glorifies her noble birth by living with
  God, and the Lord of all loves her.
• 813 Because of her I shall have immortality, and
  leave an everlasting remembrance to those who
  come after me.
• Click to read about precreation wisdom in Wisdom
  of Solomon 9.

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PRECREATION WISDOMin Wisdom of Solomon 9

• Wisdom 96 Even one who is perfect among human
  beings will be regarded as nothing without the
  wisdom that comes from you.
• 917 Who has learned your counsel, unless you
  have given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from
  on high?
• 918 And thus the paths of those on earth were
  set right, and people were taught what pleases
  you, and were saved by wisdom.
• Click to read about precreation wisdom in
  Colossians 1-2.

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• CHRISTIAN PRECREATION RHETOROLECT IN
• COLOSSIANS 1-2 PRESENTS CHRIST AS
• THE IMAGE OF GOD, CREATOR OF ALL THINGS VISIBLE
  AND INVISIBLE, ONE IN WHOM ALL THINGS HOLD
  TOGETHER, AND ONE WHO MAKES PEOPLE HOLY AND
  BLAMELESS

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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1 CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD

• Colossians 115 He the Son of his love is the
  image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all
  creation,
• 116 for by him all things were created, in the
  heavens and on the earth, things visible and
  things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
  principalities or powers all things have been
  created through him, and for him.
• 117 He is before all things, and in him all
  things are held together.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1 CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
cont. (1)

• Colossians 118 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.
• 119 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in
  him
• 120 and through him to reconcile all things to
  himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or
  things in the heavens, having made peace through
  the blood of his cross.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1 CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
cont. (2)

• Colossians 121 You, being in past times
  alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil
  works,
• 122 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his
  flesh through death, to present you holy and
  without blemish and blameless before him,
• 123 if it is so that you continue in the faith,
  grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from
  the hope of the good news which you heard, which
  is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven
  of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1 CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
cont. (3)

• Colossians 125 I was made a servant of the
  church, according to the stewardship of God which
  was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of
  God,
• 126 the mystery which has been hidden for ages
  and generations. But now it has been revealed to
  his saints,
• 127 to whom God was pleased to make known what
  are the riches of the glory of this mystery among
  the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of
  glory.
• Click to continue reading Colossians 1-2.

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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Colossians
1-2 CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
cont. (4)

• Colossians 128 It is he whom we proclaim,
  admonishing everyone and teaching everyone in all
  wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in
  Christ Jesus.
• 22 I want the hearts of those in Laodicea to be
  comforted, they being knit together in love, and
  gaining all riches of the full assurance of
  understanding, that they may know the mystery of
  God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• 23 in whom are hidden all the treasures of
  wisdom and knowledge.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Ephesians 3
CHRIST AS THE MYSTERY AND PLAN OF GOD

• Ephesians 3 speaks of Christ as the mystery of
  God, hidden for ages in God.
• Resources for Christian precreation rhetorolect
  in Ephesians lie in the other letters of Paul in
  the New Testament.
• Ephesians 3 summarizes earlier statements in
  Pauls letters, using the terms mystery and
  plan to talk about Christ as Gods precreation
  wisdom.
• Click to read about Christ as the mystery and
  plan of God in Ephesians 3.

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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Ephesians 3
CHRIST AS THE MYSTERY AND PLAN OF GOD

• Ephesians 31 For this cause I, Paul, am the
  prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you
  Gentiles,
• 32 if it is so that you have heard of the
  administration of that grace of God which was
  given me toward you
• 33 how that by revelation the mystery was made
  known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
• 34 by which, when you read, you can perceive my
  understanding in the mystery of Christ,
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Ephesians 3
CHRIST AS THE MYSTERY AND PLAN OF GOD cont. (1)

• Ephesians 35 which in other generations was not
  made known to the children of men, as it has now
  been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets
  in the Spirit
• 36 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and
  fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers
  of his promise in Christ Jesus through the good
  news,
• 37 of which I was made a servant, according to
  the gift of that grace of God which was given me
  according to the working of his power.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Ephesians 3
CHRIST AS THE MYSTERY AND PLAN OF GOD cont. (2)

• Ephesians 38 To me, the very least of all
  saints, was this grace given, to preach to the
  Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• 39 and to make all humankind see what is the
  administration of the mystery which for ages has
  been hidden in God, who created all things
  through Jesus Christ
• 310 to the intent that now through the assembly
  the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to
  the principalities and the powers in the heavenly
  places,
• 311 according to the eternal purpose which he
  purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord
• 312 in whom we have boldness and access in
  confidence through our faith in him.
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Christian Precreation Rhetorolectin Ephesians
3CHRIST AS THE MYSTERY AND PLAN OF GOD cont. (3)

• Ephesians 318 you may be strengthened to
  comprehend with all the saints what is the
  breadth and length and height and depth,
• 319 and to know Christs love which surpasses
  knowledge, that you may be filled with all the
  fullness of God.
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Good Work!

• In this lesson you have learned that
• Colossians and Ephesians, two disputed letters
  of Paul, contain highly developed Christian
  precreation rhetorolect.
• Christian precreation rhetorolect in Colossians
  and Ephesians reconfigures biblical and
  pseudepigraphical precreation discourse about
  wisdom and the invisible and visible so it
  focuses on Christ, Gods beloved son.
• Click to continue the summary.

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Summary cont.

• Colossians speaks of precreation Christ as the
  image of God.
• Resources for the Christian precreation
  rhetorolect in Colossians lie in Genesis, Sirach,
  and Wisdom of Solomon.
• Christian precreation rhetorolect in Colossians
  1-2 presents Christ as the image of God, creator
  of all things visible and invisible, one in whom
  all things hold together, and one who makes
  people holy and blameless.
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Excellent!

• Ephesians speaks of Christ as the mystery and
  plan of God before the ages.
• Ephesians 3 summarizes earlier statements in
  Pauls letters using the terms mystery and
  plan, rather than wisdom and image, to talk
  about Christ as Gods precreation wisdom.
• Resources for the Christian precreation
  rhetorolect in Ephesians lie in the other letters
  of Paul in the New Testament.
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Congratulations!!!!

THIS WAS THE FIFTH LESSON on the Christian
Precreation Story-Line. The next lesson turns
to Christian precreation rhetorolect in the
Gospel of John. Wonderful job!