Rom 1:4, Col 1:18 | Family | STEP | Declared--with power ; powerfully, conclusively manifested to be The Son of God--according to the Spirit of holiness ; as to his divine nature. The words, "according to the Spirit of holiness," stand in contrast with the words, "according to the flesh," and seem to denote the divine Spirit of Christ, which was from eternity, and became mysteriously united with "the man Christ Jesus." To this divine nature holiness is ascribed as an essential attribute of deity. By the resurrection from the dead ; the resurrection of Christ was the crowning seal which God set to the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to be the Son of God in the high and incommunicable sense of having equality with God. Christ has a twofold nature, human and divine. He is both God and man. Of this, God has given abundant and conclusive evidence, which no man can reject without great guilt.

Romans 1:4

Declared--with power; powerfully, conclusively manifested to be

The Son of God--according to the Spirit of holiness; as to his divine nature. The words, "according to the Spirit of holiness," stand in contrast with the words, "according to the flesh," and seem to denote the divine Spirit of Christ, which was from eternity, and became mysteriously united with "the man Christ Jesus." To this divine nature holiness is ascribed as an essential attribute of deity.

By the resurrection from the dead; the resurrection of Christ was the crowning seal which God set to the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to be the Son of God in the high and incommunicable sense of having equality with God. Christ has a twofold nature, human and divine. He is both God and man. Of this, God has given abundant and conclusive evidence, which no man can reject without great guilt.

Colossians 1:18

Head of the--church; source of its life, light, and all its blessings.

First-born from the dead; the first who rose never again to die, and who will raise all the dead--some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Joh 5:28,29.

Have the preeminence; as head of the created universe, and the object of supreme affection to all who put their trust in him. As Christ owns the bodies and souls of men by the right of creation and redemption, and as he made, redeemed, and preserves them for himself, not to devote themselves to his service is injustice and dishonesty.