The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 261

IMAGE AND LIKENESS likeness referred to Christ, invisible God,"

and

few have accepted teachers, "

we

the express

is

of the

Not a

"

the

Yet, with our best ministers and

with the words,

It conflicts

Our likeness," which the Father thus addressed the Son and the Holy-

Some say

can not be

Image

of His Substance."

said to be

Image

this as settled.

men

must mean that Spirit.

who

believe this incorrect.

Let Us make

this

"

221

so,

after

Our image and

after

that these words are addressed to the angels, but since

man

is

not created after the image of an-

Others maintain that God addressed Himself, arousing Himself to execute His design, using " We_" as a plural of majesty. But this does not agree with the immediately following singular: " And God created man after His image." Hence we maintain the tried gels.

explanation of the Church's wisest and godliest ministers, that by these words the Father addressed the Son and the Holy Spirit.

then the unity of the Three Persons expresses "

And God

created

not be the Son.

man

after ZT/V image."

How could

itself in

Hence

this

And

the words:

image can

the Father say to the Son and to the

Holy Spirit: " Let Us make men after the image of the Son" ? That image must be, therefore, a concentration of the features of God's Being, by which He expresses Himself. And since God alone can represent His own Being to Himself, it follows that by the image of God we must understand the representation of His Being as it eternally exists in the divine consciousness. " Image " and " likeness " we take to be synonyms not because a ;

difference could not be invented, but because in ver. 27 the

word Hence we oppose the explanation that image refers to the soul, and likeness to the body. Allowing that by the indissoluble union of body and soul the features of the divine image must have an after-effect in the latter, which is "

likeness" \s

not even mentioned.

His temple, yet there is no reason nor suggestion why we should support such a precarious distinction between image and likeness. Hence the image after which we are created is the expression of God's Being as it exists in His own consciousness. The next question is: What was or is there in

him

to be created after that

image?

man

that caused

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