"seen by men"

Aidan Nichols, O.P. writing in The Art of God Incarnate:

In his body of glory Christ lives radiantly as true humanity, the realization at last of the possibility the writers of Genesis had seen in the human animal "in the beginning." In the glorious humanity of the risen Christ the expected humanity of the last Adam has been seen by men. Once he had glimpsed Christ, Paul had no doubt that he had located the model and means of transfiguring the form of human life into that condition where it is capable of imaging God, just as the Jewish apocalyptists had hoped man would "in the last days." 

Paul had come to see Jesus, therefore, as a man who fulfilled the spoilt promise of Adam and thus renewed the image of God in the human. The very lapse of time which distanced Paul from the historical Jesus enabled him to perceive what the artist Degas would call the "essential gestures" of his life. These essential gestures, in which the revelatory form of Jesus' life consists, are above all a matter of his perfect, creative obedience to the Father. That responsiveness in obedience to the Father, in life and in death, is for Paul the inverted image of Adam's sin. Christ, although he was in the form (or image) of God, did not exploit the existence with God which he possessed, but renounced his claims, choosing instead the way of humiliation and obedience manifested in the carpenter's home at Nazareth and the via dolorosa to Calvary. (42-43)