53. Verse 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him. 'Image' is mentioned twice here for the reason that faith, which resides in the understanding, is called 'His own image', while love, which resides in the will, is called 'the image of God'. The latter comes second in a spiritual man but first in a celestial man.

10095. 'And it shall be for Aaron and his sons by the statute of an age from among the children of Israel' means the law of order in the representative Church as regards the Lord's Divine Good and the Divine Truth emanating from that Good. This is clear from the representation of 'Aaron and his sons' as the Lord in respect of Divine Good and of the Divine Truth emanating from that Good, dealt with in 9806, 9807, 10068; from the meaning of 'the statute of an age' as a law of Divine order, dealt with in 7884, 7995, 8357; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church, dealt with in 4286, 6426, 6637, 9340. The reason why the representative Church is meant is that this Church was established among the children of Israel, see the places referred to in 9320(end).