84. Let us now review a whole
passage Viz.: the
complete section Heb. ii.
14–iii. 2. in order.
“Seeing, then, that the sons have parts of flesh and blood, He
too likewise was made to have part in the same, to the end that by
death He might overthrow him who had the power of
death.” Heb. ii. 14. Who, then,
is He Who would have us to be partakers in His own flesh and
blood? Surely the Son of God. How, save by means of the
flesh, was He made partaker with us, Particeps
noster—our partner, companion, sharing all our labours (and
taking the lion’s share, too). Isa. liii. 4. or
by
what, save by
bodily death, brake He the chains of death? For Christ’s
endurance of death was made the death of Death. 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55. This text, then, speaks of the
Incarnation.