(II Sam. 12: 30). The idea however is extended beyond that of an actual king, we read of

crowning of the year with goodness and crowning with lovingkindness. Adam was

crowned with "glory and honour". The word translated "honour" is the Hebrew hadar,

which in the feminine form is rendered "beauty" in the phrase "the beauty of holiness"

(Psa. 29: 2; 96: 9).  The clothing of Aaron the High Priest was "for glory and

beauty" (Exod. 28: 2), and while a different word is here translated "beauty" this also

is associated with the sanctuary (II Chron. 3: 6; Psa. 96: 6, see verse 9 quoted above).

When the Saviour was transfigured, Peter tells us He received from the Father "honour

and glory", the LXX of Psa. 8: 5 using the Greek words doxe kai time, the passage in

II Pet. 1: 17 using the Greek words timen kai doxan. This, said the Apostle, made the

prophetic word more sure. It appears therefore that Adam at his creation was in the

capacity of a king-priest, an office held by Melchisedec but finally and only to be held by

Christ, the Son of God. Here is yet another of the "secrets of the Son" to which the

subscription Almuthlabben directs our attention. At this point in Psa. 8:, the type

Adam is separated from the antitype Christ. Adam had "all things put under his feet" but

the "all things" are limited to sheep, oxen, beast of the field, fowl of the air, fish of the

sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea--a dominion as universal as the

living creatures that share the earth with man.

The "forces of nature" were not entrusted to Adam. He was tempted to extend his

dominion beyond its legitimate sphere, and before the time appointed--but this is another

story and must be treated separately. The quotation in Heb. 2:, I Cor. 15: and Eph. 1:

repeat the fact that "all things were put under His feet", but instead of "sheep and oxen"

we there read of principality and power, throne and dominion, indeed a universal

subjection, with one extraordinary exception--namely the Father Himself!

We commend therefore to every student capable of conducting the investigation the

Septuagint translation of al muth labben "THE SECRETS OF THE SON" for the

Mystery of Christ, is a necessary prelude to the dispensation of the mystery itself as

Eph. 3: 1 will make clear.