Excerpt from The Princeton Review, Vol. 30: April, 1858The incarnation was designed not to put away sin by an atoning sacrifice, nor to work out by Christ's obedience a justi fying righteousness, but to bring down a new element of life into mankind. Personal communion with God is now first made possible. This is the bond of union in the Church, as the bond in Israel had been themerely natural relation appro priate to the preceding period. Through Christ, who was the Son of God because supernaturally born of the Holy Spirit, they are made sons of God. Individuality in the sense above explained did not belong to the person of Christ. He was a free Spirit; and any particular temperament, anything which was so but might have been otherwise would have implied limi tations which are not supposable in him. His physical nature, however, as born of a particular mother, and a particular people, and organized _in a particular way, was possessed of individual characteristics.

These limitations in the earthly life of the incarnate Redeemer, are so many predictions of his state of glorification, in which they have all been done away. The Lutheran doctrine of the infusion of divine attributes into the ascended human nature of Christ is thus justified.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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