we shall be like him”126—in other words, being in his image, we hope to be in his likeness. Now, the fact that this interpretation is reliable Paul also confirms in encouraging some people to make progress in virtue: “In order that you may be in the image of the Creator,” although they were so on the basis of substance.127 What he means is something like this: every person, as a creature of God and gifted with reason, is in his image, capable of receiving the image, as we said, and suited to a share