As a man, he was pure, blameless, holy.

At the age of thirty years, he was qualified under the law to be a priest, and there he consecrated himself and at that time was baptized and begotten to the divine nature; hence became a new creature there from the divine standpoint.

As a new creature he was made perfect by the things which he suffered .-- Hebrews 5:8.
[470]From the time of his baptism he was opposed by Satan the devil, who sought to destroy him.

The reason for this opposition lay in the fact that when God sentenced Adam to death he had said unto Satan: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel".

(Genesis 3:15) The woman here symbolized or typified the Abrahamic-Sarah covenant, from which the seed of promise springs.