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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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at it was so, because He was not only <strong>the</strong><br />

Unsiiming, Unfallen Man, OHAP. but also <strong>the</strong> Son<br />

<strong>of</strong> God. Because God was His Fa<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong>refore<br />

He ^ must be about His Business, which was to do<br />

<strong>the</strong> Will <strong>of</strong> His Fa<strong>the</strong>r. With a peccable Human<br />

Nature He was impeccable ; not because He<br />

obeyed, but being impeccable He so obeyed,<br />

because ELis Human was inseparably connected<br />

with His Divine Nature. To keep this Union <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

two Natures out <strong>of</strong> view would be Nestorianism.'<br />

To sum up : <strong>The</strong> Second Adam, morally unfallen,<br />

though voluntarily subject to all <strong>the</strong> conditions <strong>of</strong><br />

our Nature, was, with a peccable Human Nature,<br />

absolutely impeccable as being also <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong><br />

God—a peccable Nature, yet an impeccable<br />

Person: <strong>the</strong> God-Man, ' tempted in regard to all<br />

(things) in like manner (as we), without<br />

(excepting) sin.'<br />

All this sounds, after all, like <strong>the</strong> stanmiering <strong>of</strong><br />

Divine words by a babe, <strong>and</strong> yet it may in some<br />

measure help us to underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong><br />

Christ's first great Temptation.

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