31. 2. THE LORD FROM ETERNITY, OR JEHOVAH, ASSUMED THE HUMAN TO SAVE MEN. This was confirmed from the Word in the preceding chapters; and it will be shown elsewhere that man could not have been saved in any other manner. That He assumed the Human appears also from those passages in the Word where it is said that He came forth from God, that He came down from heaven and that He was sent into the world; as from the following:
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. John xvi 28.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent me. John viii 42.
The Father Himself loveth you because ... ye have believed that I came out from God. John xvi 27.
No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven. John iii 13.
The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. John vi 33, 35, 41, 50, 51.
He that cometh from above is above all ... He that cometh from heaven is above all. John iii 31.
I know the Father: For I am from Him, and He hath sent me. John vii 29. It may be seen above, No. 20, that by being sent by the Father into the world is meant the assuming of the Human.
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