124. The Jews did violence to two things
which are chief of all, faith and duty, and in each to Christ the
Author of faith and duty. For both in the patriarch Joseph was
there a type of Christ, and Christ Himself came in the truth of His
Body, “Who counted it not robbery that He should be equal with
God, but took on Him the form of a servant,” Phil. ii. 6, 7. because of our fall, that is to say,
taking slavery upon Himself and not shrinking from
suffering.