Originally Posted by armourbearer

The apostle is speaking of the person of Christ. Owen saw that everything stated of Christ here was applicable to Him in the union of the divine and human natures. So far so good. But one must explain how a *man* can be the express image of God's person. Here Owen acknowledges that everything that is said of Christ is owing to His divinity. It is because He is the God-man that He expresses God's exact character, specifically, because He is God who assumed human nature. To see Christ is to see God because He is God. This leaves us where the great majority of orthodox interpreters have brought us in the understanding of this passage -- that the divine person of Christ is the exact representation of God the Father.