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He regards their welfare pities them in their sorrows sustains them in trial shows himself to be their friend. He protects them, as a father does his children. The apostle speaks of God, of the divine nature, the one infinitely holy Being, as sustaining the relation of Father "to his creatures." He produced them, He provides for them. (2) Because the scope of the passage requires it. (1) Because the apostle does not use the correlative term" Son" when he comes to speak of the "one Lord Jesus Christ " and,

The word "Father" here is not used as applicable to the first person of the Trinity, as distinguished from the second, but is applied to God as God not as the Father in contradistinction from the Son, but to the divine nature as such, without reference to that distinction - the Father as distinguished from his offspring, the works that owe their origin to him. One God, the Father - Whom we acknowledge as the Father of all Author of all things and who sustains to all his works the relation of a father. We acknowledge but one God, Whatever the pagan worship, we know that there is but one God and he alone has a right to rule over us. Even granting, for argument sake, that such gods or lords do exist, we have but one God, one Lord.īarnes' Notes on the BibleBut to us - Christians. (See Galatians 6:15 Ephesians 2:10.) This sixth verse then sweeps away completely any pantheistic conception which might have been thought to be in the previous words. (See Colossians 1:16.) The words “we by Him” must not be regarded as a repetition of part of the thought of the previous sentence but as the words “by whom are all things” express the fact of physical creation, so the words, “we by Him,” attribute our spiritual re-creation as Christians to the same source. All creation is for the Father and likewise for the Son. All creation is of the Father through the Son. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) But to us.-Though this be so, yet for us Christians there exists but one God the Father, from whom alone every created thing has come, and for (not “in”) whom alone we exist and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are created ( John 1:3), and we Christians created spiritually by Him.