This is the line of thought that Paul picks up in the glorious poem of Colossians 1.15–20, in which he sets out, after the fashion indeed of a Hebrew psalm, the balanced account of all things being created in, through, and for the Messiah and then all things being redeemed in, through, and for him. Paul leaves us in no doubt that he is picking up this tradition of “creation through wisdom,” joining together Genesis 1 and Proverbs 8.
