by "chaff" or "husk". Bare or naked grain was grain or seed ready for sowing, ready to

be "fruitful and multiply".

We are reminded in I Cor. 15: moreover that "to every seed its own body" is a

principle as true in the spiritual reality of resurrection as it is in the physical creation.

The body of the believer, like the body of Adam is at first "natural" and afterward in

resurrection "spiritual", for, "there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body". The

natural body is that which we receive from "the first man Adam", the spiritual body we

receive from "the second Man, the Lord from heaven, the last Adam".

This association of the believer with Adam and with Christ, and the two bodies that

are in view, is embraced in the figure of the "image".

The over-reaching subtlety of the serpent, while plunging man into sin and death,

opened the door for the Redemptive purposes of God to operate, and symbolically and by

redemption man was "clothed upon" before being expelled from the Garden, anticipating

the fully clothed condition which will be attained only in resurrection. It is to be noted

with worship and wonder, that the Hebrews word translated "skin" is a derivative of the

word "naked", and differs only from the Hebrew word for "naked" by the absence of the

final letter "m", skin being "ar", naked being "arum". Before this clothing of the

nakedness of the man and his wife took place, the promise of the Coming Seed is given:

With the light we have received in this preparatory study, let us approach this great

central prophecy with chastened hearts, yet with exultant spirits, for here lies enshrined

the purpose of the ages, its conflict and its ultimate triumph.