Excerpt from potential work on the sons of God
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son , that he might be the firstborn among many brethren . Romans 8:29 Speaking of the Second Adam, the Lord Jesus, who is the preeminent son among sons, it logically follows that the first Adam, like Joseph, was the favoured among his elder brethren. Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. If we follow the creation of Adam, as the steward and new ruler with dominion of the earth, though a late comer to the terrestrial scene he is the first man. Though made in the image of God like the sons of God, he was made "Lower" than they. Just as Christ was made a little lower than the angels and would taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, ...