Man’s Original Dress

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1872

Man’s Original Dress.

THERE is a great deal of evidence that man in his original innocence was clothed with light as with a garment. Though destitute of raiment, he was not really naked, but was clothed with light. When he fell, that vesture of light was lost, and lo! he was really naked. He was even more naked than the beasts by which he was surrounded. A late learned, talented, and pious author, speaking of man being made in the likeness of God, says, “God clothes himself with light; and as man was made after his likeness, we reasonably conclude that he clothed our first parents in the garb of light. Without this dress, they would have been imperfect in appearance, and unlike him. When they sinned against God, this feature of their likeness to their Creator was removed. When they perceived that, and saw clearly that they were naked, they were afraid, and ashamed, and sought to hide themselves from God among the trees of the garden; and also sought to cover their shame from themselves by making girdles of fig leaves.” If man in his original state was clothed with light, then in his glorified state he will be thus clothed, for it will be a restored state. Christ will restore what we have lost in Adam, “encircled with light, and with glory enshrouded.”—Prophetic Times.