The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

who would be the Redeemer must go back of the
man, to meet the sin that was in the world before
the man sinned.
This is why He who came to redeem was
“made of a woman.” By being made of a woman,
He could trace sin to the very fountainhead of its
original entry into the world by the woman. And
thus in finding sin in the world and uprooting it
from the world, from its original entrance into the
world till the last vestige of it shall be swept from
the world, in the very nature of things He must
partake of human nature as it is since sin entered.
Otherwise, there was no kind of need whatever
that He should be “made of a woman.” If He were
not to come into closest contact with sin as it is in
the world, as it is in human nature; if He were to be
removed one single degree from it as it is in human
nature, --then He need not have been “made of a
woman.”
But as He was made of a woman--not of a man;
as he was made of the one by whom sin entered in
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