The supremacy of Christ described
15 Ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, πρωτότοκος πάσηςπασης rell ¦ 1 της [10%] κτίσεως, 16 ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ ἐκτίσθη τὰ πάντα—τὰτα f35 A,C [97%] RP,HF,OC,TR,CP ¦ --- 𝕻46ℵB [3%] NU ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς καὶ τὰτα f35 A,C [97%] RP,HF,OC,TR,CP ¦ --- 𝕻46ℵB [3%] NU ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, τὰ ὁρατὰ καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα, εἴτε θρόνοι εἴτε κυριότητες εἴτε ἀρχαὶ εἴτε ἐξουσίαι—τὰ πάντα δι᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἔκτισται· 17 καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν. 18 Καί, αὐτός ἐστιν ἡη rell ¦ --- [2%] CP κεφαλὴ τοῦ σώματος, τῆς ἐκκλησίας· ὅς ἐστιν ἀρχή, πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, ἵνα γένηται ἐν πᾶσιν αὐτὸς πρωτεύων, 19 ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ εὐδόκησενευδοκησεν rell ¦ ηυδοκησεν A [15%] πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα κατοικῆσαι 20 καὶ δι᾿ αὐτοῦ ἀποκαταλλάξαι τὰτα rell ¦ --- CP πάντα εἰς αὐτόν, εἰρηνοποιήσας διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ σταυροῦ αὐτοῦ—δι᾿ αὐτοῦ,δι αυτου f35 𝕻46ℵA,C,048 [80%] RP,HF,OC,TR,CP[NU] ¦ --- B,I [20%] (The omission of the emphatic repetition is surely inferior.) εἴτε τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἴτε τὰ ἐπὶεπι f35 [50%] RP,HF,CP ¦ εν ℵA,B,C [50%] OC,TR,NU (The change to ‘in’ may have been unthinking, but is clearly inferior—beings and things that are an inherent part of Heaven don’t need ‘reconciling’.) τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.