The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 280

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INTRODUCTION

240 will bear

Our image on

earth,

who

will

be as Our image on earth, or

be to Us on earth for an image."

Then

it

follows, in Gen.

i.

27

:

"

And God created man He him."

His

for

image, to be an image of God created

same whether I say, " God created man after His image," i.e., so that man became bearer of His image, or " God created man for an image of Himself." In both instances, and in similar manner, it is expressed that man should exThus far the image of God was lacking in hibit an image of God. the earth. When God had created man, the lack was supplied for that image was man, upon whose being the Lord God had stamped His own image. Hence we see no difference in the two translaIt is, of

course, exactly the

:

tions.

Speaking of the image stamped on sealing-wax by a seal, I can I have stamped the wax after the image of the seal, "referring to the concave image of the seal or, " The image is stamped on the wax" referring to the convex image on the wax. We add three remarks First, the word " man " in Gen. i. 26 does not refer to one perAdam was not merely a person, but son, but to the whole race. our progenitor and federal head. The whole race was in his loins. Humanity consists at any given moment of the aggregate of those who live or will live in this world, whether many or few. Adam alone was humanity when Eve was given him he and she were humanity. " Let Us make man in Our image and after Our likeness," is equal to: " Let Us create humanity, which will bear Our image." But it refers also to the individual in that he is a member of the human family. Hence Adam begat children in his image and after Yet there is a difference. Men have different his own likeness. gifts, talents, and qualifications the complete impress of the divine image could appear not in individual endowments, but in the full manifestation of the race, if it had remained sinless. Hence the Dutch Version uses the plural, altho the Hebrew has say, "

;

;

;

" man " not Adam alone, but the genus man, humanwas created in the divine image. Hence when the original man fell, the second Adam came in

the singular ity,

:

Christ, who, as the second federal Head, contained in Himself the whole Church of God. In His meditorial capacity Christ appeared as God's image in Adam's place. Wherefore every member of the Church must be transformed after His image i Cor. xv. 49;

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