94 All tilings reconciled to God. CHAP. 



that in him should all the Fulness (of the Godhead) 

 dwell ; and through him to reconcile all things unto 

 himself, having made peace through the blood of 

 his cross ; through him, I say, whether things upon 

 the earth or things in the heavens." 1 Heaven and 

 earth, in the language of the Epistles, are the names 

 for the entire universe, invisible and visible, spiritual 

 and material ; 2 so that the Apostle here asserts that 

 there is a work of reconciliation to be done by the 

 Atonement of Christ among, and for, not only the 

 inhabitants of earth, but also those of the spiritual 

 world. This is a distinct contradiction of the doctrine 

 that Christ's work of grace and salvation for men is 

 limited to the present earthly dispensation. 



The Epistle to the Philippians contains a still more 

 remarkable expression of the same truth: "Our 

 citizenship is in heaven ; from whence also we wait 

 for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall 

 fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it 

 may be conformed to the body of His glory, accord- 

 ing to the working whereby He is able to subject all 

 things unto Himself." 3 "The working whereby He 

 is able to subject all things to Himself " might mean 



1 Col. i. 19, 20. 



2 See, besides the two passages last quoted, Colossians i. 16 ; 

 Hebrews ix. 23, and xii. 26, 27 ; and Ephesians vi. 12. The 

 last is especially remarkable ; the mention of ''the spiritual 

 hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places " shows that heaven 

 cannot be merely a synonym for the dwelling-place of God and 

 the holy angels. Compare the prologue to Job. 



8 Philip, iii. 20, 21. For all that is implied in this subjec- 

 tion, see the remarks on 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28 (pp. 90, 91). 



