The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 123

LIKE ONE OF US

not the conception of a human person, but of a Where a new being is conceived, a human person But when the Person of the Son, who was existence.

Second,

human

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it is

nature.

comes into

with the Father from eternity, partakes of our flesh and blood. He adopts our human nature in the unity of His Person, thus becoming a true man but it is not the creation of a new person. The Scripture clearly shows this. In Christ appears but one ego, being in ;

the

same Person

at once the

Son of God and the Son of man.

follows not that a new flesh was created in Mary as the Mennonites used to teach, but that the fruit in Mary's womb, from which Jesus was born, was taken from and nourished

Third, from this

with her

it

own blood— the very blood which through her parents

had received

ivova fallen

she

Adam.

Last, the Mediator bom of Mary not only partook of our flesh and blood, such as it existed in Adam and as we have inherited it from Adam, but He was bom a true man, thinking, willing, and feeling like other men, susceptible to all the human emotions and sensations that cause the countless thrills and throbs of human life. And yet He was separate from sinners. Of this we speak in the

next

article.

Let this

from which fact in the sight of God

suffice for the fact of the conception,

we

derive the precious comfort:

my

sin

and guilt wherein I was

berg Catechism, quest.

36).

"

That

conceived

it coi>ers

and brought forth" (Heidel

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