For we now begin to bear the image of Christ, and we are daily being transformed into it more and more; but that image depends upon spiritual regeneration. But then [at the time of the resurrection] it will be restored to fulness, in our body as well as our soul; what has now begun will be brought to completion, and we will obtain in reality what as yet we are only hoping for.76 Elsewhere he says, “Observe that the purpose of the gospel is the restoration in us of the image of God which had been