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Chapter XVIII.—Jesus Christ, the
Mediator, is the Only Way of Safety.
24. And I sought a way of acquiring strength
sufficient to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that
“Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,”551
“who is
over all, God blessed for ever,”552
calling unto me, and saying, “I
am the way, the truth, and the life,”553
and mingling that food which I was
unable to receive with our flesh. For “the Word was made
flesh,”554
that Thy
wisdom, by which Thou createdst all things, might provide milk for
our infancy. For I did not grasp my Lord Jesus,—I, though
humbled, grasped not the humble One;555
| 555 Christ descended that we may ascend. See iv. sec.
19, notes 1 and 3, above. | nor did I know what lesson that
infirmity of His would teach us. For Thy Word, the Eternal Truth,
pre-eminent above the higher parts of Thy creation, raises up those
that are subject unto Itself; but in this lower world built for
Itself a humble habitation of our clay, whereby He intended to
abase from themselves such as would be subjected and bring them
over unto Himself, allaying their swelling, and fostering their
love; to the end that they might go on no further in
self-confidence, but rather should become weak, seeing before their
feet the Divinity weak by taking our “coats of skins;”556
| 556 Gen. iii. 21. Augustin frequently makes
these “coats of skin” symbolize the mortality to which our
first parents became subject by being deprived of the tree of life
(see iv. sec. 15, note 3, above); and in his Enarr. in Ps.
(ciii. 1, 8), he says they are thus symbolical inasmuch as the skin
is only taken from animals when dead. | and wearied,
might cast themselves down upon It, and It rising, might lift them
up.
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