Looked at in the light of God's Word, Christ's humanity was as real as ours (which itself differs not a little from human nature as it came from God); its state was totally different from Adam's either in integrity or in ruin.
In its singularly blessed source and character, as in its practical development, there was that which, even on the human side of His Person, contra-distinguished Christ from Adam, whether in or outside Paradise. Was the agency of the Holy Spirit in His generation a small matter? And what of the fact that in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell?
There was nothing in Adam innocent that could be represented by the oil mixed with the fine flour [for the meat offering] any more than by the subsequent anointing with oil; nor was he at any time (as Christ always was) simply and solely in his life an offering to God, from which the salt of the covenant was never lacking.
In the type of the Pentecostal saints, spite of their wondrous privileges, in that meat offering unto Jehovah, the two wave-loaves were expressly baken with leaven, and hence necessarily had their accompanying sacrifice for a sin offering (Lev. 23:15-21): firstfruits indeed to be offered, but not to be burnt (as was the oblation that represented Christ) on the altar for a sweet savor. [32]