Thus the Son made possible the union of humanity with Himself. He ‘shrank from God into man Trin. xii. 6, decedere ex Deo in hominem. Perhaps it should be decidere, as in Tr. in Ps. lxviii. 4.’ by an act not only of Divine power, but of personal Divine will. He Who did this thing could not cease to be what He had been before; hence His very deed in submitting Himself to the change is evidence of His unchanged continuity of existence Tr. in Ps. lxviii. 25.. And furthermore, His assumption of the servant’s form was not accomplished by a single act. His wearing of that form was one continuous act of voluntary self-repression Trin. xi. 48, ‘emptying Himself’ might have been a single act; ‘hiding Himself within Himself’ was a sustained course of conduct., and the events of His life on earth bear frequent witness to His possession of the powers of God.