two marvelously descriptive phrases, exactly why
Jesus is the Head of the body. First, he says, "he is the beginning." The
beginning of what? The beginning of the church! He is the One from whom the
church gets its life. There are several "beginnings" in Scripture. The
Bible opens on that note: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth." But that is not the beginning referred to here. There is
another"beginning"in the gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word."
That goes back even before 