{The image and glory of God} (eik(936e) kai doxa theou).
Anarthrous substantives, but definite. Reference to Ge 1:28 2:26 whereby man is made directly in the image (eik(936e)) of God.
It is the moral likeness of God, not any bodily resemblance.
Ellicott notes that man is the glory (doxa) of God as the crown
of creation and as endowed with sovereignty like God himself.
{The glory of the man} (doxa andros). Anarthrous also, man's
glory. In Ge 2:26 the LXX has anthr(9370)os (Greek word for both
male and female), not an(8872) (male) as here. But the woman
(gun(885c)) was formed from the man (an(8872)) and this priority of
the male (verse 8 ) gives a certain superiority to the male. On
the other hand, it is equally logical to argue that woman is the
crown and climax of all creation, being the last.
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