God formed
man (as a potter, vayizar) from the dust of the ground, and blew into
his nostrils a breath of life (a nishmath chaia), and man became a
living soul (nephesh chaia). Here we find that it was by God's breathing
this highest power of life from Himself that man became a living soul. He had
formed his body before, as he saw good, and it was by the communication of life
from Himself that He animated the form He had made. The animals had issued by
His will from the earth. He had said, "Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind [a nephesh chaia came forth (yozu)], and
it was so." Not so with man. God consults solemnly as to his creation, and
resolves to make man in His image, after His likeness. So God created man in
His image, and gave him dominion, and God blessed him, and God said to him and
gave him to know his place, his food, the beasts' food. He was the vessel of
divine communications, as of the divine breath of life, and the object of
divine counsels.[i]
1.
Is conformity to Christ in glory, according to the purpose
of God.[ii]
2.
In the full sense of it, it is Christ Himself., and that
revealed as Man in glory,1 John. v.20.[iii]