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and all ages. Aner on the contrary means an adult male person, and is often translated
husband.
Aner.
"Ye men of Israel . . . . . Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God' (Acts 2: 22).
Anthropos.
"By one man, Jesus Christ"(Rom. 5: 15).
"By man came also the resurrection" (I Cor. 15: 21).
"The second man is the Lord from heavenī(I Cor. 15: 47).
"In the likeness of men" (Phil. 2: 7).
"In fashion as a man" (Phil. 2: 8).
"The man Christ Jesus" (I Tim. ii.5).
These doctrinal passages confirm the testimony of those who were eye witnesses and
contemporaries, and illuminate the necessity of the Lord's humanity. [Users of Young's
Analytical Concordance should see whether their edition contains a misquotation in
Rom. 5: 15 under Man (anthropos), as some editions quote the wrong half of the verse].
The references in Romans and I Corinthians set forth the Lord as "the second man and
the last Adam". It is noteworthy that in Paul's early epistles he speaks of the Lord as
man only in the two epistles in which he speaks of Adam. In the epistles written after
Acts 28: Adam is not mentioned, but the emphasis seems to be that of mediation.
Note I Tim. 2: 5 in full:--
"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and MEN, THE MAN Christ
Jesus."
In this one verse the whole problem of the Lord's deity and humanity is solved.
GOD
MEN
|________THE MEDIATOR_______|
Who is both GOD and MAN.
For God to meet man the mediator must be divine; for man to meet God the mediator
must be human. The problem of sin, death, resurrection, redemption, and atonement are
all solved in the Mediator, "the Man Christ Jesus".