Just as powerful earthly kings, to indicate their claim to dominion, erect an image of themselves in the provinces of their empire where they do not personally appear, so man is placed upon earth in God’s image as God’s sovereign emblem.3 The animals are to be identified “according to their kinds” (Gen. 1:21, 24–25). But mankind, and mankind alone, stands tall as royalty “in the image of God.” We find our identity not downward in relation to the creation but upward in relation to God. And the glory