25七节启示基督是万国所羡慕的。我珍赏卫斯理查理的诗歌说到，『万国「羡慕」万民「望」』（诗歌七四首第四节。）基督实在是全人类的羡慕。所有人都羡慕得著生命、亮光、和平、良善和公义，但他们没有看见，他们所羡慕的实际上就是基督。基督就是生命、亮光、和平。我们若没有祂，就没有生命、亮光、和平、或任何人性的美德。基督是每一项人性美德的实际；因此，羡慕美德实际上就是羡慕基督。照著神在创造人时的安排，人性的美德，就如爱、仁慈、忍耐、谦卑，都是神圣属性的彰显。神的目的，乃是要祂所是的属性，由人在人的美德里彰显出来。我们可用手套来说明这事。手套是照人手的形状设计的。手是手套的内容，而手套是手的彰显。同样的，人性的美德乃是『手套』，为了彰显『手』，就是神圣的属性。手套没有手就没有内容，照样，没有神圣属性的人性美德也没有实际。创世记一章二十六节告诉我们，神造人是照著自己的形像，按著自己的样式。然而，人是空虚的，只有外面的形状，没有神作内在的内容。因此，神的目的是要照祂形像所造的人，运用他的意志拣选神（由生命树所表征）作他的内容。这样拣选神，意思就是我们接受神的生命连同祂的属性进到我们里面，使其藉著我们的美德而得著彰显。譬如，神有一个属性是爱。我们可以说这个爱是『手』的一部分，而我们人性美德的爱是『手套』的一部分。即使是不信者也有天然、属人的爱；当然，他们没有神圣属性的爱。我们这些信徒已经接受神作我们的生命；当祂活在我们里面时，祂爱的属性就藉著我们人性之爱的美德得著彰显。这样，基督就成了这人性美德的实际。
25Verse 7 reveals that Christ is the Desire of all the nations. I appreciate the line in Charles Wesley’s hymn that says, “Come, Desire of nations, come!” Christ truly is the desire of all mankind. All people desire to have life, light, peace, goodness, and righteousness, yet they do not realize that what they desire is really Christ. Christ is life, light, and peace. If we do not have Him, we do not have life, light, peace, or any of the human virtues. Christ is the reality of every human virtue. Thus, to desire virtue actually is to desire Christ. According to God’s arrangement in His creation of man, the human virtues, such as love, kindness, patience, and humility, are for the expression of the divine attributes. It is God’sin tent i on that the attributes of His being would be expressed by man in his virtues. As an illustration of this, consider a glove that is designed in the form of a human hand. The hand is the content of the glove, and the glove is the expression of the hand. Likewise, the human virtues are the “glove” for the expression of the divine attributes as the “hand.” Just as a glove without a hand has no content, so the human virtues without the divine attributes have no reality. Genesis 1:26 tells us that God made man in His own image and according to His likeness. Nevertheless, man was empty, having only the outward form but not having God as his inward content. God intended, therefore, that the man created in His image would exercise his will to choose God, signified by the tree of life, as his content. To choose God in this way means that we receive God’s life with His attributes into us to be expressed through us by our virtues. For example, one of God’s attributes is love. We may say that this love is part of the “hand” and that our human virtue of love is part of the “glove.” Even unbelievers have a natural, human love. Of course, they do not have the divine attribute of love. As believers, we have received God as our life, and as He lives within us, His attribute of love is expressed through the virtue of our human love. In this way, Christ becomes the reality of this human virtue