The thesis of this chapter is that in the divine command man is commissioned to reproduce God’s own activity in creation, that is, to subdue and to fill the earth. Contextually then, the divine image is the anthropological enablement for obedience to the divine command. After the disobedience of the first Adam, however, the divine command (as restated in the Protevangelion) is confirmed through the divine covenants to Noah, Abraham, and David. Each of these promissory covenants successively designates