Canons (Whitehead) n. 15

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15. CHAPTER II.

JEHOVAH GOD DESCENDED AS TO THE DIVINE WISDOM, OR THE DIVINE TRUTH, AND ASSUMED THE HUMAN IN THE VIRGIN MARY.

1. Jehovah God assumed the Human that in the fulness of time He might become the Redeemer and Saviour. 2. He became the Redeemer and Saviour by the Justice, which, as to the Human, He then put on. 3. He could not have become Justice, and thus the Redeemer and Saviour, as to the Human, except by Divine Truth: since by the Divine Truth, from the beginning, all things were made which were made. 4. The Divine Truth could combat against the hells, and could be tempted, blasphemed, reproached, and suffer. 5. But not the Divine Good, neither God, except in the Human, conceived and born according to Divine Order. 6. Jehovah God therefore descended as to the Divine Truth, and assumed the Human. 7. This is according to the Sacred Scripture, and according to reason enlightened there and from it.


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