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| He came then to attract man's sense-bound attention to Himself as man, and so to lead him on to know Him as God.
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§16. He came then to
attract man’s sense-bound attention to Himself as man, and so to
lead him on to know Him as God.
For men’s mind having finally fallen to
things of sense, the Word disguised Himself by appearing in a body, that He might, as Man,
transfer men to Himself, and centre their senses on Himself, and, men
seeing Him thenceforth as Man, persuade them by the works He did that
He is not Man only, but also God, and the Word and Wisdom of the true
God. 2. This, too, is what Paul means to point out when he says:
“That ye245
being rooted and grounded in love, may
be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and
length, and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which
passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of
God.” 3. For by the Word revealing Himself everywhere, both above
and beneath, and in the depth and in the breadth—above, in the
creation; beneath, in becoming man; in the depth, in Hades; and in the
breadth, in the world—all things have been filled with the
knowledge of God. 4. Now for this cause, also, He did not immediately
upon His coming accomplish His sacrifice on behalf of all, by offering
His body to death and raising it again, for by this246
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τούτου, perhaps,
in both places—“by it,” viz. His body. |
means He would have made Himself invisible. But He made Himself visible
enough by what247
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τούτου, perhaps,
in both places—“by it,” viz. His body. | He did, abiding in it, and doing such
works, and shewing such signs, as made Him known no longer as Man, but
as God the Word. 5. For by His becoming Man, the Saviour was to
accomplish both works of love; first, in putting away death from us and
renewing us again; secondly, being unseen and invisible, in manifesting
and making Himself known by His works to be the Word of the Father, and
the Ruler and King of the universe.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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