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Though He had no taint of sin upon His character, yet He con-
descended to connect our fallen human nature with His divinity. By
thus taking humanity, He honored humanity. Having taken our fallen
nature, He showed what it might become, by accepting the ample
provision He has made for it, and by becoming partaker of the divine
nature.—Special Instruction Relating to the Review and Herald Office,
and the Work in Battle Creek, May 26, 1896, p. 13.
He [Paul] directs the mind first to the position which Christ occu-
pied in heaven, in the bosom of His Father; He reveals Him afterward
as laying off His glory, voluntarily subjecting Himself to all the hum-
bling conditions of man’s nature, assuming the responsibilities of a
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servant, and becoming obedient unto death, and that death the most ig-
nominious and revolting, the most shameful, the most agonizing—the
death of the cross.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:458
.
The angels prostrated themselves before Him. They offered their
lives. Jesus said to them that He would by His death save many, that
the life of an angel could not pay the debt. His life alone could be
accepted of His Father as a ransom for man. Jesus also told them
that they would have a part to act, to be with Him and at different
times strengthen Him; that He would take man’s fallen nature, and
His strength would not be even equal with theirs; that they would be
witnesses of His humiliation and great sufferings.—
Early Writings,
150
.
Amid impurity, Christ maintained His purity. Satan could not stain
or corrupt it. His character revealed a perfect hatred for sin. It was His
holiness that stirred against Him all the passion of a profligate world;
for by His perfect life He threw upon the world a perpetual reproach,
and made manifest the contrast between transgression and the pure
spotless righteousness of One that knew no sin.—
The S.D.A. Bible
Commentary 5:1142
.