But, as things were then generally represented by types, so the male child was a type and representative of the more full and complete form, which was reserved till the fulness of time, and till the world should know the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.

For 'in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female.'" [Footnote 1: A curious reason for this, in the minds of some, appears to be that, when man was created, woman was included in him.

For, they say, in the first chapter of Genesis, and in the account of the sixth day, before woman was made, the plural word _them_ is used: "male and female created he them." They say that the blessing was pronounced on the man and woman in Adam.

For they think it improbable that Moses would anticipate his history so much as to bring in woman, and, withal, her blessing, too, at the sixth day, when the narrative teaches that she was made some time afterwards.

Hence, they say, it was that woman was for ages treated as included in man.