“In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:”
And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross — reconciliation (apokatallassō, restore to harmony) is Christ's work through his cross. 'All things' includes cosmic reconciliation: not just human souls but creation itself. 'Making peace' (eirēnopoieō, peace-making) through cross-blood invokes sacrificial language. The cosmic scope is staggering: Christ's death reconciles all creation to God. This is universalist hope.
Church Fathers on Colossians 1:22
Here he goes to show that He reconciled those even who were unworthy of reconciliation. For by the saying that they were under the power of darkness, he shows the calamity in which they were. Colossians 1:13 But lest, on hearing of “the power of darkness,” you should consider it Necessity, he adds, “And you that were alienated,” so that though it appear to be the same thing that he says, yet it is not so; for it is not the same thing to deliver out of the evils him that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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