10.
That Christ is both man and God, compounded of both natures, that He
might be a Mediator between us and the Father.
In Jeremiah: “And He is man, and who
shall know Him?”
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Also in Numbers: “A
Star shall arise out of Jacob, and a man shall rise up from
Israel.”
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Also in the same place: “A Man shall go forth out of his
seed,
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and shall rule
over many nations; and His kingdom shall be exalted as Gog,
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and His kingdom
shall be increased; and God brought Him forth out of Egypt. His
glory is as of the unicorn, and He shall eat the nations of His
enemies, and shall take out the marrow of their fatnesses, and will
pierce His enemy with His arrows. He couched and lay down as a
lion, and as a lion’s whelp. Who shall raise Him up?
Blessed are they who bless Thee, and cursed are they who curse
Thee.”
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Also in
Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; on account
whereof He hath anointed me: He hath sent me to tell good tidings
to the poor; to heal the bruised in heart, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and sight to the blind, to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord, and the day of retribution.”
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Whence, in the Gospel according to
Luke, Gabriel says to Mary: “And the angel, answering, said
to her, The Holy Ghost
shall come upon thee, and the power of
the Highest shall overshadow thee. Wherefore that holy thing
which is born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”
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Also in
the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “The first
man is of the mud
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of the earth;
the second man is from heaven. As was he from the soil, such are
they also that are of the earth; and as is the heavenly, such also are
the heavenly. As we have borne the image of him who is of the
earth, let us also bear the image of Him who is from
heaven.”
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Jer. xvii. 9
.
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Num. xxiv. 17
.
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[Here the English (
q
.
v
.) gives the more literal
reading, which the Septuagint treats as a proverb, unfolding its
sense. “Water from the bucket” seems to have
signified the same as our low proverb “a chip from the
block,” hence = a Son from the Father.
Num. xxiv. 7
.]
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The
Oxford translator follows the English version, and reads, “over
Agag.”
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Num. xxiv.
7–9
.
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Isa. lxi. 1, 2
.
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Luke i. 35
.
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“Limo.”
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1 Cor. xv.
47–49
.