<b>Riveting</b>! Alexander MacLaren confirms the crux of the Colossian epistle as the <b>stateliness and sole sufficiency of Christ as Mediator</b>, the Source and Lord of all creation and the Church. Christ, the perfect man is the beginning of all life, before which He dwelt in God, the Father. Highlighting the <b>futility of the ceremonialist</b>, to whom religion is tantamount to ritual, and the <b>folly of the speculative thinker</b>, to whom the universe abounds with forces excluding the operation of a personal Will, Paul preaches <b>Christ as the only answer</b>. <b>Challenging</b>!
