![]() ![]() … The younger son went into a far country. What is, “from afar “? While I am yet in my pilgrimage, before I reach that, my true country, Thou hast known my thoughts. 3) “and all my ways Thou hast seen beforehand” (ver. “Thou hast understood my thoughts from afar Thou hast tracked out my path and may limit” (ver. For many wish to rise before they have sat down, they wish to appear righteous, before they have confessed that they are sinners. Lift not up yourselves, unless ye have first been humbled. But if thou choosest to take the words of the Head in the person of the Body: man sitteth when he humbleth himself in penitence, he riseth up when his sins are forgiven, and he is lifted up to the hope of everlasting life. “Thou,” he saith, hast known this that is, Thou hast willed, Thou hast approved according to Thy will was it done. The Lord then “sat” in His Passion, “up-rose” in His Resurrection. What here is “down-sitting,” what “up-rising “? He who sitteth, humbleth himself. “Thou hast known My down-sitting and Mine up-rising” (ver. But forasmuch as for our sakes, that we might be re-made, and made partakers of His Divine Nature, being renewed unto life eternal, He was made partaker of our mortal nature, what saith the Apostle of Him? He saith, “yet He emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a man.” He was in the Form of God, equal to the Father He took upon Him the form of a servant, so as therein to be less than the Father. The Apostle saith, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”(1) To this “Form” God is Father, the “Form” equal to Himself, the only-begotten Son, begotten of His Substance. Wouldest thou know to whom He is Father? To the coequal Son. He is Father of the God, Lord of the Man. For His Father is not His Lord, save because He hath deigned to be born according to the flesh. Let the Lord Jesus Christ Himself say this let Him too say,” Lord,” to the Father. “Lord, Thou hast tried me, and known me” (ver. was made partaker of our mortal nature, not of His own store, but of ours that we too might be made partakers of His Divine Nature, not of our store, but of His. Let us believe that Godhead, and, so far as we can, understand Him to be equal to the Father. For the Psalms were sung long before the Lord was born of Mary, yet not before He was Lord: for from everlasting He was the Creator of all things, but in time He was born of His creature. Let us hear then our Lord Jesus Christ speaking in prophecy. ![]() Whatsoever then our Lord speaketh!in the person of the Flesh He took upon Him, belongeth both to that Head which hath already ascended into heaven, and to those members which still toil in their earthly wandering. ![]() ![]() … Our Lord Jesus Christ speaketh in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He maketh Himself one with us as it is said, “they twain shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord saith in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. ![]()
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