创一26 神说，我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人……。

　　徒七56 〔司提反〕就说，看哪，我看见诸天开了，人子站在神的右边。

　　我要简短地说到神与人在形像和样式上的相似。……我要鼓励你们非常仔细地研读以下各点。我们查考这些，也许会想要知道，究竟是人与神相似，还是神与人相似？

　　神在祂的创造里，并没有创造“人类”。创世记一章告诉我们，神创造一切的鱼、鸟、野兽和牲畜，各从其类（24~25）。虽然神创造一切是各从其类，但神却没有创造“人类”。在神的创造里，没有“人类”这样的东西。

　　神若没有创造“人类”，那么人是从着什么类被造的？二十六节指明，人乃是从神类被造的。这节说，“我们〔神圣的三一〕要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人〔希伯来文，亚当，指红土〕。”因此，神在这里所造的是从祂自己的类，就是神类。……神按着自己的形像，照着自己的样式造一块红土（历代志生命读经，一○四至一○五页）。

　　Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…

　　Acts 7:56 And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

　　I would like to give a very brief word on the resemblance of God and man in their images and likenesses ….I would encourage you to study all the following points very carefully. As we consider these, we may wonder whether man resembles God or God resembles man.

　　There was no “mankind” created by God in His creation. Genesis 1 tells us that God created all the fish, the birds, the beasts, and the cattle after their kind (vv. 24-25). Although God created everything after its kind, God did not create “mankind.” In God’s creation there was not such a thing as “mankind.”

　　If God did not create “mankind,” then after what kind was man created? Genesis 1:26 indicates that man is after God’s kind. This verse says, “Let Us [the Divine Trinity] make man [Heb. adam, denoting red clay] in Our image, according to Our likeness.” Hence, what God made here was according to His own kind, that is, God-kind….God created something of red clay in His own image and after His own likeness. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, p. 85)

　　这块红土有神的形像，看起来像神。至少我们能说，这土是神从神类所造的一个像。所以，这红土是神类。在创世记一章二十六节，神照着自己创造了一样东西。祂所造的是自己的复制。神若按着祂的形像，照着祂的样式造了一万块泥土，那一万块泥土就都是神的像，神的大量复制。

　　在十八章二至十三节，有三个人向亚伯拉罕显现。这三个人中有一位是基督—耶和华，其他二位是天使（十九1）。这三人向亚伯拉罕显现，发生在基督成为肉体以前。这就是说，在神成为肉体以前二千年，祂访问祂的朋友亚伯拉罕时，就显现为一个人。亚伯拉罕为祂预备水，给祂洗脚，而亚伯拉罕的妻子撒拉预备饭食给这人吃。这是个奥秘。基督何时成为人—在祂成为肉体的时候，或在成为肉体以前？

　　照着但以理七章十三至十四节，但以理看见人子驾着天云而来的异象，祂甚至来到亘古常在者，就是永远的神那里，被领近祂面前。祂得了权柄、荣耀、国度，使各族、各国、各方言的人都事奉祂。祂的权柄是永远的权柄，不能废去，祂的国必不毁坏。在基督成为肉体以前，但以理就看见这样一个基督为人子的异象。

　　亚当是基督的预像，预表（罗五14）。……创世记一章二十六节的那块红土是基督的预表，而基督是那不能看见之神的像（西一15）。……存在于神的形状里的基督，在祂成为肉体时，取了奴仆的形状，成为人的样式，显为人的样子（腓二6~8）。

　　司提反看见诸天开了，人子基督在神的右边（徒七56）。司提反在基督升到诸天之上以后看见这景象，指明基督在诸天之上仍是人子。……在马太二十六章六十四节主耶稣说，“你们要看见人子，坐在那大能者〔神〕的右边，驾着天上的云而来。”这是指基督的第二次来临。当主耶稣回来时，祂仍是人子（历代志生命读经，一○五至一○八页）。

　　参读：历代志生命读经，第二、四、七、十一、十三篇。

　　Having the image of God, this work of red clay looked like God. At least we can say that this clay was a figure of God, made after God’s kind. Therefore, it was God-kind. In Genesis 1:26 God created something according to Himself. What He made was a reproduction of Himself. If God had made ten thousand pieces of clay in His image and after His likeness, those ten thousand pieces of clay would all have been figures of God, the mass reproduction of God.

　　In Genesis 18:2-13 three men appeared to Abraham. One of these men was Christ—Jehovah—and the other two were angels (19:1). The appearing of these three men to Abraham took place before Christ’s incarnation. This means that two thousand years before His incarnation, God appeared as a man when He visited His friend Abraham. Abraham prepared water for Him to wash His feet, and Abraham’s wife, Sarah, prepared a meal that this man ate. This is a mystery. When did Christ become a man—at the time of His incarnation or before the incarnation?

　　According to Daniel 7:13-14, Daniel saw a vision of a Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven, and He came even to the Ancient of Days—the God of eternity—and they brought Him near before Him. There was given Him dominion, glory, and a kingdom that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an eternal dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Daniel saw such a vision of Christ as the Son of Man before Christ’s incarnation.

　　Adam was a type, a prefigure, of Christ (Rom. 5:14). The piece of red clay in Genesis 1:26 was a type of Christ, and Christ is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15). Christ, who exists in the form of God, took the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, in His incarnation (Phil. 2:6-8).

　　Stephen saw the heavens opened up and the Son of Man—Christ—at the right hand of God (Acts 7:56). Stephen saw this after Christ’s ascension to the heavens. This indicates that Christ is in the heavens still as the Son of Man. In Matthew 26:64 the Lord Jesus said, “You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power [God] and coming on the clouds of heaven.” This refers to Christ’s second coming. When the Lord Jesus comes back, He will still be the Son of Man. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, pp. 86-87)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, msgs. 2, 4, 7, 11, 13