access.  These three statements give the positive position of this new company.

The change over to the `twain' was in preparation for the reference to Genesis

2:24 which is quoted in Ephesians 5:31 `They two (duo) shall be one flesh'.  The

`new man' is the goal towards which the purpose of the ages moves.  It is in

process now, as may be seen from Ephesians 4:24.  The immediate concern of the

dispensation of the Mystery is the production of the `perfect man' (Eph. 4:13),

where the word translated `man' is not anthropos, as in the passages already

examined, but aner `an adult male', `a man not a woman', `a husband'.

The word occurs two hundred and fifteen times in the New Testament, fifty

of which occurrences are translated `husband', and of these, seven are found in

Ephesians and Colossians.  The perfect man is the `husband', seen alone and to

the exclusion of the wife.  A husband however is a contradiction in terms if

there be not also either in fact or in prospect a wife.  Genesis 2:24

foreshadows the state of affairs when paradise is restored; there will then be

two redeemed companies, not one.  The church of the One Body then complete will

be the perfect husband; the Bride of the Lamb will be the perfect wife, and

Christ will be the Head of both.

There was a period in Adam's experience when he was alone.  We are living

in a period during which there is no `Bride'-- the advent and presentation of

the Bride is future.  Some have objected to the idea that the husband, i.e. the

church of the Mystery, should be blessed in one sphere, while the wife, i.e. the

bride of Revelation 19, should be blessed in another.  Yet with all their

protestations, the most loving and loyal of husbands necessarily have some

spheres of activity into which their wives do not and should not enter.

Husbands may be ministers of State, they may be financiers, merchants,

scientists or soldiers; they may be the many who earn their bread by manual

labour, but there has never been an outcry of disloyalty or lack of affection

because a minister of State does not insist that his wife be co-elected with him

to Parliament, or that a miner is disloyal and without natural affection because

he does not insist that his wife shall work with him at the coal face!  These

objections confuse distinctive calling with basic salvation and are valueless,

and those who make them do not attempt to put their objections into operation so

far as they themselves and their own domestic economy are concerned.  Genesis

2:24 is to be attained, but it is not in operation yet; the new man created of

the twain is the husband, the formation of the bride awaits the Day of the Lord.

In volume 29 of The Berean Expositor we opened our pages to a contributor

who taught that the creation of the new man `refers to a future creation, when

two bodies or assemblies, one mainly Jewish and the other mainly Gentile, are

made one in Christ'.  In volume 30 we wrote:

`The statements we have quoted from Genesis are all associated with

Paradise, before the entry of the Serpent and before the Fall'.

`The prefect man (or husband) and the perfect bride will, while retaining

the distinctive peculiarities of their respective callings, become in the

future "one new man" even as Adam was in the beginning the covering name

of both male and female'.

There is no need to obtrude into the constitution of the Mystery now that

which is only to be realized in the future; but it illuminates many features of

the present dispensation when we not only recognize that they are peculiar and

distinct, but that they are destined to fall into their respective place when

the goal of the ages is attained.  The church which is the Body of Christ is now