15. For this reason, though possible to distinguish, it is impossible to separate Gen. 1:28 from Matt. 28:18f, One implies the other. Both involve going into all the world; both involve working for the Triune God; both were commanded by the Word of God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. If men had not filled the earth in terms of Gen 1:28, they could not be evangelized in terms of Matt. 28:18f. When the Word of God commands the Apostles to teach “all things, whatsoever I have commanded you” in Matt.28:19, He includes whatsoever He the Word commanded them in Adam as the federal head of the entire human race when He said unto him: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
