And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a mangier; : for there was no place for them in the inn.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,