Ib. p. 276.
I confess I do not agree with Skelton's interpretation of any of these texts entirely. Because I hold the Nicene Faith, and revere the doctrine of the Trinity as the fundamental article of Christianity, I apply to Christ as the Second Person, almost all the texts which Skelton explains of his humanity. At all events 1 consider
the first-born of every creature
as a false version of the words, which (as the argument and following verse prove) should be rendered
begotten before
, (or rather
superlatively before
),
all that was created or made; for by him