9我们已经强调这事实：人被造不仅是照著神的形像，也是按著神的样式。『样式』一辞指外面的形状，外面的样子，外面的显出。因此，这里的『样式』是一件彰显的事。首先，人是照著神的形像造的，好成为神的复制品；然后，人是按著神的样式造的，好有神的显出，来作神的彰显。人若只有神的样式，却没有神的形像，这就是说，人只有外面的显出，却没有里面的实际。这样，显出，彰显，就是空虚的。形像是外在彰显的内在实际，样式乃是形像的彰显或外面的显出。腓立比二章七节是新约中与这事有关的经文。我们在这节看见基督成为肉体，成为『人的样式。』这节告诉我们的，不是基督有了神的样式，乃是基督有了人的样式。当祂成为人时，祂有人的显出，人的彰显。然而，这必定不是虚空的彰显，缺少实际的彰显，没有内容的彰显。相反的，基督既有人性的实际，也有人性的彰显，显出。人性的实际乃是基督所取人的样式的内容。
9We have emphasized the fact that man was created not only in God’sim age but also after God’s likeness. The word “likeness” refers to outward form, outward fashion, outward appearance. Hence, “likeness” here is a matter of expression. First, man was made in God’sim age to be a duplicate of God, and then man was made after God’s likeness to have the appearance of God for His expression. If man had only the likeness of God but not the image of God, this would mean that man would have only the outward appearance but not the inward reality. In such a case, the appearance, the expression, would be empty. The image is the inward reality of the outward expression, and the likeness is the expression, or the outward appearance, of the image. Philippians 2:7 is a New Testament verse related to this. In this verse we see that in His incarnation Christ became “in the likeness of men.” This verse tells us not that Christ had the likeness of God but that He had the likeness of men. When He became a man, He had the appearance, the expression, of man. However, this certainly was not an empty expression, an expression devoid of reality, an expression without content. On the contrary, Christ had both the reality of humanity and the expression, the appearance, of humanity. The reality of humanity was the content of the likeness of man that Christ had.