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found in St. Cyprian’s works, says: Because (Mary) being “very different from the rest of mankind, human nature, but not sin, communicated itself to her.” Theodore, patriarch of Jerusalem, said in the second council of Nice, that Mary “is truly the mother of God, and virgin before and after childbirth; and she was created in a condition more sublime and glorious than that of all natures, whether intellectual or corporeal.”[2] This plainly puts the nature of Mary entirely beyond any real likeness or relationship to mankind or human nature as it is. Having this clearly in mind, let us follow this invention in its next step. Thus it is, as given in the words of Cardinal Gibbons: -- “We affirm that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Word of God, who in His divine nature is, from all eternity, begotten of the Father, consubstantial with Him, was in the fullness of time again begotten, by being born of 98
the virgin, thus taking to himself from her maternal womb a human nature of the same substance with hers. “As far as the sublime mystery of the incarnation can be reflected in the natural order, the blessed Virgin, under the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, by communicating to the Second Person of the adorable Trinity, as mothers do, a true human nature of the same substance with her own, is thereby really and truly His mother.”[3] Now put these two things together. First, we have the nature of Mary defined as being not only “very different from the rest of mankind,” but “more sublime and glorious than all natures;” thus putting her infinitely beyond any real likeness or relationship to mankind as we really are. Next, we have Jesus described as taking from her a human nature of the same substance as hers. From this theory it therefore follows as certainly as two and two make four, that in His human nature the Lord Jesus is “very different” 99
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One shall many be made righteous.
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God, which is the righteousness of
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Spirit, he can not enter into the k
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his children by an earthly birth; t
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anything, nor uncircumcision, but a
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to that which we have before shown:
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Chapter 3 "Come, Follow Me" When th
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the righteousness of God, which is
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and I count all things but loss for
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the Christ is born of God: and ever
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number of his name; they will, at t
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the will of God. The power of God c
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of Jesus. Since the commandments of
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Chapter 5 "Let His Mind Be in You"
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Being “perfect in beauty,” he l
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the very thought and ambition of Lu
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denied himself, he emptied himself,
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himself conspicuous, or to draw att
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glory, but only his glory that sent
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Oh, “let this mind be in you, whi
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Page 57 and 58: Study the first chapter of Hebrews
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