To RECONCILE THOROUGHLY, to bring all the way back into relationship — a double-compound (apo + kata + allassō, 'to change') that appears only in Colossians and Ephesians and may have been coined for the purpose. ⚠ Its object at Colossians 1:20 is startling: not all PEOPLE but ta panta, all THINGS, the same neuter plural as the creation strophe, explicitly including 'the things in the heavens' — the scope of what is repaired matching the scope of what was made. How far that reaches has been argued since Origen (universal restoration on one reading, the pacification of hostile powers on another); the hymn states the scope and not the mechanism. → first discussed at Colossians 1:20