Note 32 — Chapter VI
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In connexion with this subject I have been often struck with a passage in St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, i. 10, "All things were created by him [Christ] and for [εις—with a view to, on account of] him." It is probable that these words, in their full meaning, cannot be understood by us. Yet they seem to point to Christ as at once the Creator, and himself the acme and design of creation; and perhaps they may contain what hereafter shall prove the key to the mystery of creation. On this impressive and difficult subject the reader should refer to the closing chapter of Hugh Miller's Footprints of the Creator. See also M'Cosh on Typical Forms, 2d edit. p. 531.