The important aspect of this text is that it represents a teaching that is not trinitarian, but purely cosmological and anthropological. It emphasizes, therefore, not so much the relationship between the Word and the Father - a relationship that is presupposed and which the Apostle Paul develops elsewhere - but the significance of Christ for humanity.

This point contains great importance, as it reveals the christological dimension of Paul's anthropology. This dimension of the term "image" is also manifested in the fundamental teaching of the Apostle, that in order for a person to be complete, he must "put on the image of the heavenly man," Christ (1 Cor. 15:49), and reach "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13), so that "we no longer be children" (Eph. 4:14). For Paul, the maturation of a person coincides with being made Christ-like.