Reference: Incarnation
Easton
that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united to a human nature (Ac 20:28; Ro 8:32; 1Co 2:8; Heb 2:11-14; 1Ti 3:16; Ga 4:4, etc.). The union is hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed or confounded, and it is perpetual.
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Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.
He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will declare thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the assembly will I sing to thee. read more. And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold me and the children which God gave me. Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,
Hastings
It is a distinguishing feature of Christianity that it consists in faith in a person, Jesus Christ, and in faith or self-committal of such a character that faith in Him is understood to be faith in God. The fact on which the whole of the Christian religion depends is therefore the fact that Jesus Christ is both God and man. Assuming provisionally this fact to be true, or at least credible, this article will briefly examine the witness borne to it in the hooks of the OT and NT.
1. The Incarnation foreshadowed in the OT.
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Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. read more. And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again it is written, You shall not try the Lord your God. Again the devil took him away on a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, and said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, Get behind me Satan; for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and waited on him.
and behold they brought him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, Son, be of good courage; your sins are forgiven. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemes. read more. And Jesus observing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts? For in what respect is it easier to say, Your sins are forgiven, than to say, Arise and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has power on the earth to forgive sins, then he said to the paralytic, Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.
All things are given me by my Father; and no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?
While he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; hear him.
And Jesus coming near spoke to them, saying, All power is given me in heaven and on the earth; go and disciple all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; read more. teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.
And he was in the stern, on the pillow, asleep. And they awoke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we perish?
And he wondered at their unbelief. And he went about the villages in order, teaching.
And he said to them, How many loaves have you? go and see. And knowing, they said, Five, and two fishes.
And he said to her, For this speech, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.
I have compassion on the multitude, because already they have continued with me three days, and have nothing to eat;
And groaning in his spirit, he said, Why does this generation seek a sign? I tell you truly, there shall no sign be given to this generation.
And he asked his father, How long a time is it since this came upon him? And he said, From a little child;
But Jesus seeing it, was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.
And he took Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed and dejected.
And Jesus said, I am; and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. And the high priest rent his clothes, and said, What further need have we of witnesses?
And he said to them, Go into all the world, preach the good news to all the creation; he that believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he that disbelieves shall be condemned. read more. And these signs shall follow those that believe; in my name they shall cast out demons, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly [poison] it shall not hurt them; and they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall be well.
and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove upon him; and there was a voice from heaven, saying, You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.
And Jesus hearing these things wondered at him, and turning around said to the multitude following him, I tell you I have not found in Israel so great a faith;
And seeing her, the Lord had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.
In the same hour he rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for so it has seemed good in thy sight.
And he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things written in the law of Moses, and Prophets, and Psalms, concerning me, must be fully accomplished. Then he opened their understanding to understand the Scriptures, read more. and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day, and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being fatigued with travelling sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour [noon].
and he having sent me is with me, he has not left me alone, for I always do the things which please him.
Then when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he was greatly agitated in spirit and affected, and said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already finished, that the Scripture might be fully accomplished, said, I thirst.
although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing good, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,
in respect to the dispensation of the fullness of times, to bring all things into one in Christ, the things which are in heaven and the things which are on earth, in him
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,
in these last days spoke to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds,
For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, to perfect by sufferings the prince of their salvation, bringing many sons to glory.
since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.