'First' in the Bible

so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ.

(Now this "re-ascended" --what does it mean but that He had first descended into the lower regions of the earth?

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness