The Scripture Doctrines of the Person of Christ

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FOURTH SECTION. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SON OF GOD. 55. The essential difference between the ante-mundane state of the Son as the Logos of the Father, in which he had glory with him, and the state of the incarnate Son, in which he was like us in all things except sin, and, again, that of the glorification, in which the Son has his former glory again, but still as Jesus the Godman, leads us to the question: What conception must we form of these changes in the life of the Son? The question itself is a threefold one, viz. 1. How did the Logos, who had life in himself like the Father, and was therefore in the form of God, become the man Jesus? 2. How did the infant Jesus become such a man that he could pray the Father that he might glorify him again with his former glory, because he had glorified the Father on earth, --a man who could say: ';Ho that seeth me seeth the Father? 3. How did this glorification take place, by which Jesus became the universal governor of the world, filling the entire universe? 27 817 CHAPTER I. THE INCARNATION OF THE LOGOS. 56. The Jesus who lived, suffered, and died as a real man on earth is the same personality who was before, as the Logos of God, with the Father, and was God, and by whom all things are made. This is the marvellous problem which has for eighteen centuries exercised the minds of believers. The Logos of God, to whom the Father gives to have life in himself even as he has, is, as such, eternal; his self-consciousness is therefore eternally clear, his knowledge eternally perfect, his will eternally fixed and holy, and his life eternal bliss. The man Jesus on earth, however, so certainly as his development was really human, was as an embryo and newly-born infant without self-consciousness. By degr...