Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 47
How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fulness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- John 1:14, 18 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
- Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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