“The preposition with the genitive in [Colossians 1:16] describes Christ as the intermediate instrument of creation (Abbott; Lightfoot).”－Cleon L. Rogers Jr. and Cleon L. Rogers III, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), 461.
“Here [in John 1:3] God the Father is thought of as the original cause of creation, and the logos as the intermediate agent.”－H.E. Dana and Julius R. Mantey, A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1957.), 162.
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