X2M.200 — מָאן (Mann): Establish Justice
Mann stands at the heart of the Preamble sequence: the clause “to establish Justice.” The Hebrew mān echoes Psalm 8’s question: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?” (Ps. 8:4). Justice, then, is not first a civic arrangement but a divine mindfulness — God’s gaze fixed upon humanity, His will that corruption and dissolution should not consume His holy ones (Ps. 16:10–11).
The sermon unfolds in layers of justice, mindfulness, and transfiguration. Like monocytes patrolling the body, identifying corruption and presenting it for healing, justice in God’s kingdom is a cleansing process.¹ It is both judicial and biological: discerning what must be purged, protecting what must be preserved. Without it, humanity decays in putrefaction; with it, the “switches” of the soul are flipped toward glorification.
Justice here is not abstraction. It is the Son of Man trial. Jesus declared: “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). His enthronement at the right hand of the Father, uncorrupted and undissolved (Acts 13:35–37), becomes the pattern for sons of man who bear His likeness. To “establish Justice” is to let Christ’s incorruptibility transfigure mortal flesh into immortal, flipping the inner switches until body and soul are aligned.²
Mann is thus a hinge between anthropology and eschatology. What is man? Dust, yet destined for glory. Justice establishes this destiny not by human striving but by divine intervention. In a world chasing immortality through artificial intelligence and self-selection, the gospel proclaims a different pathway: sanctification as true evolution.³ Here, justice is not imposed from outside but written into the genome by Christ’s indwelling.
This is why Mann belongs to the Preamble firmware. It encodes enthronement in covenantal law, reminding rulers that justice and righteousness are the foundation of the throne (Ps. 89:14).⁴ In civic terms, it corresponds to the U.S. Constitution’s clause “establish Justice.” In theological terms, it is God’s judicial presence, the righteous branch enthroned at His right hand, securing incorruption for His people.
To establish Justice is to secure glory. At God’s right hand are pleasures forevermore — not decay but delight, not dissolution but eternal union. Mann declares that the Son of Man’s incorruptible life is already working in us, cleansing, strengthening, and preparing us for glorification.
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¹ On monocytes and corruption: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/monocyte.
² Acts 13:32–37: Christ, the Holy One, did not undergo corruption, securing incorruption for His people.
³ N. Galtier, “Half a Century of Controversy: The Neutralist/Selectionist Debate in Molecular Evolution,” Genome Biology and Evolution 16.2 (2024).
⁴ Ps. 89:14: “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.”
