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THE OBEDIENCE OF THE SON OF GOD
That Jesus Christ is very God is shown in His way into the far country in which He the Lord became a servant.
For in the majesty of the true God it happened that the eternal Son of the eternal Father became obedient by offering and humbling Himself to be the brother of man, to take His place with the transgressor, to judge him by judging Himself and dying in his place.
But God the Father raised Him from the dead, and in so doing recognised and gave effect to His death and passion as a satisfaction made for us, as our conversion to God, and therefore as our redemption from death to life.
basis of creation
If by the Son or the Word of God we understand concretely Jesus, the Christ, and therefore very God and very man, as He existed in the counsel of God from all eternity and before creation, we can see how far it was not only appropriate and worthy but necessary that God should be the Creator.
If this was God’s eternal counsel in the freedom of His love, the counsel actualised in the manger of Bethlehem, the cross of Calvary and the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, it was not merely possible but essential for God to be the Creater.
The fact that God has regard to His Son -the Son of Man, the Word made flesh- is the true and genuine basis of creation.
To be sure there was no other necessity than that of His own free love.
But a genuine necessity is constituted by the fact from all eternity He willed so to love the world, and did so love it, that He gave His only begotten Son(Jn. 3:16) .
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