man and Christ in his incarnate identification with human beings. The phrase also occurs in Ps. 80:17 (“Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, / the son of man you have raised up for yourself”), which is an appeal, during the national decline, for a hero to appear and redeem Israel; this passage may well have influenced Jesus’ messianic consciousness (J. Stalker in ISBE [1929], 5:2829). This mosaic from Hagia Sophia depicts the child Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The title Son of Man may