An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The heads of men have run into great variety of opinion, about these hands forming man.

First, Many of the Ancients understand by the hands of God,¹ The Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity, and the holy spirit of God, who is the third, Thine hands have made me, that is, the Son and the holy Spirit, who were assistant to, and of counsel ⟨p. 490⟩with the Father at the Creation of man, And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, Gen. 1.26.

First, Many of the Ancients understand by the hands of God,¹ The Sonne of God, the second Person in the Trinity, and the holy spirit of God, who is the third, Thine hands have made me, that is, the Sonne and the holy Spirit, who were assistant to, and of counsell ⟨p. 490⟩with the Father at the Creation of man, And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likenes, Gen. 1.26.

1. 1Ambros. in Hexam Hom. 11. Basil, &c.

Others expound hands literally and formally, not as if God had hands (that's below their conceit) but thus, It hath been said of old, that when God at first formed man, the Son took upon him an outward shape, or the shape of a man; and so (say they) Christ (not made man, but) in the form of man formed man.