After introductory greetings, the book of Colossians launches into a glorious passages of praise to Christ. 

It is widely considered to be a poem or perhaps even early Christian hymn, and we are intrigued by the variety of ways this is typeset in different translations. The most cryptic phrase to our ears is the part about Jesus being "firstborn from the dead", and we discuss the idea of His preeminence more generally in these verses.