The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

lower than the angels, unto the suffering of death,
so certainly it is by this demonstrated that, as man,
Jesus took the nature of man as he is since death
entered; and not at all the nature of man as he was
before he became subject to death.
But death entered only because of sin: had not
sin entered, death never could have entered. And
we see Jesus made lower than the angels for the
suffering of death. Therefore we see Jesus made in
the nature of man, as man is since man sinned, and
not as man was before sin ever entered. For this He
did that He might “taste death for every man.”
“For it became Him, for whom are all things,
and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons
unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation
perfect through sufferings” (Heb. 2:10). Thus, in
becoming man, it became Him to become such as
man is. Man is subject to suffering. Therefore it
became Him to come to the man where he is, in his
sufferings.
Before man sinned, he was not in any sense
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