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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Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.
Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all?
And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will announce thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church will I praise thee. read more. And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me. Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength 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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And God will say, We will make man in our image according to our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every. creeping thing creeping upon the earth.
He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, So shall ye praise the sons of Israel, saying to them,
Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.
And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.
Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread. read more. And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God. Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and sets him upon the small wing of the temple; And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again has it been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; And he says to him, All these will I give to thee, if, falling down, thou wouldst worship me. Then says Jesus to him, Retire, Satan; for it has been written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship, and him alone shalt thou serve. Then the devil lets him go, and behold, the messengers came up, and they served him.
And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee. And behold, certain of the scribes said in themselves, This defames. read more. And Jesus seeing their reflections, said, Why reflect ye within your hearts? For why is it easier to say, Sins are let go to thee; or say, Arise and walk? But that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to let go sins, (then he says to the paralytic), Having risen, take up thy bed and retire to thy house.
All things were delivered to me by my Father; and none knows the Son, except the Father; nor knows any one the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal
Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.
And Jesus, having come near, spake to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth: Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: read more. Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.
And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?
And he wondered for their unbelief. And he went about the towns teaching.
And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? retire and see. And having known, they say, Five, and two fishes.
And he said to her, For this word retire; the demon has gone out of thy daughter.
I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain three days with me, and have nothing they might eat:
And having sighed deeply in spirit, he says, Why seeks this generation for a sign Verily I say to you, shall a sign be given to this generation.
And he asked his father, How long is it that this has been to him? And he said, From childhood.
And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
And he takes Peter and James and John with himself, and began to be amazed, and to be dejected.
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting from the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. And the chief priest, having rent his tunic, says, What further need have we of witnesses
And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation. And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned. read more. And these signs shall follow those having believed; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well.
And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son; in thee I was contented.
And Jesus having heard these, wondered at him, and having turned to the crowd following him, he said, I say to you, Neither have I found so much faith in Israel.
And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I will acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes Father, for so was it benevolence before thee.
And he said to them, These the words which I spake to you, being yet with you, for all things must be completed, written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, to understand the writings, read more. And he said to them, That so has it been written, and so was it necessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.
In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world.
And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.
And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him.
Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping having come with her, was heavy in spirit, and troubled himself, And said, Where have ye laid him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?,
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already completed, that the writing might be finished, says, I thirst.
And surely indeed he left not himself without witness, doing good, having given us rain from heaven, and fruitful times, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:
For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:
At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times;
For it became him, for whom all things, and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the chief of their salvation by sufferings.
(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.