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I'll throw out and you guys correct me if I'm wrong.

You got it.

I'll correct you, Mike.

Firstborn of all creation, I think, has to be put together with firstborn of the resurrection

from the dead.

Okay.

That it's an eschatological term.

That means in other words, he is in his incarnate life, death, resurrection.

He is the beginning of the new creation.

So this is new creation language, not old creation, but new creation language.

He is the first born of all creation, new creation, because he's the firstborn from the resurrection of the dead.

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