Either way, he sees that Christ was in the divine image of God before creation and that he is (ἐστίν, estin, referring to a timeless truth) still in the divine image throughout redemptive history and on into eternity: the eschatological image of Christ in his resurrected estate is the manifestation of his eternal ontic status as the divine archetypal image in its eschatological significance in light of Christ’s incarnation, death, and resurrection. Christ has come in human form and accomplished that