1 tn BDAG 973 s.v. συνίστημι B.3 suggests “continue, endure, exist, hold together” here.
2 tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.
3 tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”