Of whom; of God as its author and head.

The whole family; or, as the original implies, every family; namely, every one of the different orders of holy beings in heaven and earth.

Is named; bears his name as the common Father of each; so that all orders of holy beings in heaven and earth are thus united into one glorious fellowship. The apostle introduces this as the climax of that great idea which he labors throughout the epistle to unfold-the union of all holy beings in God through Christ.

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Old Testament