He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,

his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was on the point of being delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.