For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

It is he who went down who has also gone up above all the heavens, to fill the universe.

He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.

It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.