WHY THE GOD-MAN? REASON #2: So That He Who Is God Could Die But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace […]
This condensed statement of the whole doctrine of the incarnation is only the prologue to a historical treatise. The historical treatise which it introduces, naturally, is written from the point of view of its prologue. Its object is to present Jesus Christ in His historical manifestation, […]
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us … No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made […]
If the birth of Jesus was so gladsome to our cousins the angels, what should it be to us? If it made our neighbors sing who had comparatively so small a share in it, how should it make us leap for joy? Oh, if it brought […]
I know nothing in the world more useful, no point of divinity more pregnant, no greater spring of sanctifying duty, than that God and man were one, to make God and us one. He married our nature, that He might marry our persons. —Richard Sibbes, 1577-1635