The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

its very origin in the world, and not made of the
man, who entered into the sin after the sin had
entered into the world, --this demonstrates beyond
all possibility of fair question that between Christ
and sin in this world, and between Christ and
human nature as it is under sin in the world, there
is no kind of separation, even to the shadow of a
single degree. He was made flesh; He was made to
be sin. He was made flesh as flesh is, and only as
flesh is in this world.
And this must He do to redeem lost mankind.
For Him to be separated in a single degree, or a
shadow of a single degree, in any sense, from the
nature of those whom He came to redeem, would
be only to miss everything.
Precisely as He must be “made under the law,
to redeem them that were under the law;” and must
be “made a curse,” to redeem them that are under
the curse; and must be made “to be sin,” to redeem
them that are “sold under sin,” so He must be made
of a woman, to reach sin at its very root in this
world, and must be made flesh, to redeem them
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