Every  soul  that  is  joined  to  him  thereby  enters  it.  That
Christ  is  truly  a  new  Head  for  mankind  is  the  teaching


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of  Paul  in  i  Cor.  xv.  and  in  Rom.  v.  There  has  been  a
natural  humanity,  but  now  there  is  a  spiritual  humanity,
to  which  Christ  is  "the  second  man,"  and  "the  last
Adam,"  the  new  Head.  As  the  first  man  was  founder  of
humanity,  so  the  man  who  "is  from  heaven,"  the  Saviour,
is  founder  of  a  new  humanity,  to  which  all  who  are
"in  him"  by  spiritual  kinship  belong.  The  natural
humanity  bears  in  one  aspect  the  likeness  of  its  earthly
head,  and  in  another  it  bears  the  likeness  of  God  in
spiritual  constitution;  but  the  spiritual  humanity  bears
the  likeness  of  God  in  spiritual  character,  and  thus  ful-
fils God's  desire  and  intention  for  his  creatures  (Eph.  iv.
